THREDDS Data Server Administration Tutorial

1. TDS Overview (ppt)

2. Quick Start

• Getting Started
• Directory layout

3. Tomcat Management and Security

• Installation for production systems
• Tomcat Security
• Enabling TDS Remote Management

4. TDS Remote Management

• Debug Page: Data Roots, catalogErrors.log, etc

5. Writing and maintaining catalogs

• Catalog Primer
• TDS Catalog Configuration
• DatasetScan
• CatalogGen

6. Enhanced Catalogs

• Annotated Example
• Metadata Extraction
• Digital Library Harvesting
• Metadata standards

7. Using NcML in TDS

• Dataset Modification/Dataset Aggregation
• Forecast Model Aggregation

8. Advanced TDS management

• Server Performance
• threddsConfig.xml
• Viewers
• Restricting Access to Datasets
• Adding your own Authenticator for Restricting Access

9. Serving Datasets - Examples

• The LEAD Project use of TDS (ppt) (pdf)

10. TDS IDD Configuration

11. Miscellaneous features and tips

• TroubleShooting
• Tips

12. THREDDS Servlet Framework

• CrawlableDataset and Catalog Generation
• Writing a THREDDS Servlet
  

This document is maintained by John Caron and was last updated on Jan 26, 2007