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8:00 Coffee and continental breakfast

8:30 (Ethan) Welcome and Logistics / TDS Overview I (ppt)

• Overview of the day
• Beginners view of TDS

9:00 (Jenn) Getting Started

This section covers basic installation and configuration of Tomcat, JDK and the TDS.

• Installing Java and Tomcat
• Tomcat Directory Structure: Quick Tour
• Running Tomcat
• Deploying the TDS
• Tomcat Log Files
• Tomcat (Server-Level) Configuration Files
• Tomcat manager Application
• Next Steps: Where To Go From Here

10:15 Break

10:45 (Ethan) TDS Overview II (ppt)

• Overview of Unidata technologies
• Example: things you'd like to be able to do
• motherlode from browser / IDV

11:15 (Jenn) Tomcat and TDS Security

Best practices and recommendations on securing a production TDS/Tomcat server.

• Why Is This Important?
• Keeping Software Versions Up-To-Date
• Removing Unused Web Applications
• Using Digested Passwords
• Enabling SSL Encryption
• Blocking Non-Essential Port Access At The Firewall
• Restricting Access To The TDS By Remote IP Address Or Host
• Securing the Tomcat manager Application
• Reverse Proxy
• Running Tomcat with a Security Manager
• Protecting the Tomcat SHUTDOWN Port
• Remove Tomcat Version String From HTTP Error Messages

12:00 Lunch

1:00 (John) Participant Introductions

Name, organization, how you use TDS (both data and clients), any TDS or data issues you are facing.

1:30 (Sean) Basic TDS Configuration

• Basic TDS Configuration
• Basic threddsConfig.xml
• Installation Checklist for Production

2:15 (Ethan) TDS Configuration Catalogs

• More THREDDS Catalog Review
• TDS Configuration Catalogs
  • Supported Access Services
  • Metadata
  • Root Catalogs
  • Managing Dataset Root and Scan Elements
  • datasetScan Details

3:00 Break

3:30 (John) TDS Configuration (cont)

• Troubleshooting Configuration Catalogs
• Security Concerns: data roots, file permissions
• Restricted Datasets
• FMRC Feature Collections

4:30 (Ethan) OGC/ISO Services (WCS, WMS, and ncISO)

• Setting up WCS, WMS, and ncISO
• Clients for WCS and WMS
  • Godiva2
• Detailed WMS Configuration

5:00 Day One Finish

6:00 Dinner TBD

8:00 Coffee and continental breakfast

8:30 (Jenn) TDS Monitoring and Debugging

• Tomcat Access Logs
• Log Files Generated by the TDS
• Monitoring and Debugging Tools

9:15 (John) Tools

• Using the TdsMonitor tool
  • cleaning up the logs
• Using ToolsUI
• Using Remote Management (aka debug page)
• Resources: Web pages, FAQ

10:30 Break

11:00 (Sean) Clients

• Python
• IDV

11:45 Lunch

1:00 (John) NcML

• Basic NcML tutorial
• NcML Aggregation
• Using NcML in the TDS

2:00(Ethan/Sean) NcML Example Problems

2:45 Break

3:00 (John/Ethan) Putting it all together

• getting your data served through TDS

4:00 (Ethan) Roadmap (ppt)

• TDS 4.3
• Interesting ideas if we had more money

4:30 Open Discussion / Participant feedback

• What features are needed?
• Evaluation forms

5:00 Day Two Finish

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