THREDDS Data Server Administration Tutorial

TDS Overview (ppt)

Getting Started

• Install Java and Tomcat
• Running tomcat
• Deploy thredds.war
• Browse distribution test catalogs and datasets

Basic TDS Configuration

• Tomcat and TDS Directories
• TDS Configuration Catalog
• Overview
• Examples: Fix enhanced catalog; add model data
• View catalogs and datasets in ToolsUI and IDV

Basic Tomcat Tour and Tomcat Security

• Important Tomcat Directories: webapps, logs, content, conf
• The Server Configuration file conf/server.xml
• Tomcat Security
• Using Authentication to Restrict Access to Tomcat Applications
• The Tomcat Manger Application
• tomcat-users.xml
• Using Digested Passwords
• Using SSL Encryption
• Enable SSL for TDS Remote Management
• Running TDS Without SSL
• Enable SSL for the Manager Application

TDS Configuration Catalogs

• TDS Configuration Catalogs
• Overview
• Serving Datasets
• Associating a Dataset with a service Element
• datasetRoot Element
• datasetScan Element
• service Element
• More datasetScan Element
• CatalogGen

Tools for Managing TDS

• Using Remote Management (aka debug page)
• Servlet Logs
• HTTP Access Logs
• TDS Configuration with threddsConfig.xml

Enhanced Catalogs

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

Using NcML in TDS

• Dataset Modification/Dataset Aggregation
• Forecast Model Aggregation

Production Installation - Advanced

• Creating user "tomcat" with limited permissions and Tomcat install location.
• Tomcat distribution Upgrade
• Using a Firewall to close all ports except ports 8080 and 8443.
• Using IP Filters to deny access to users abusing the TDS
• Disable Web Indexers
• Upgrading SSL security level by creating a CA (Certificate Authority) signed key
• Configure Tomcat start/stop scripts
• Remove Default Tomcat Applications
• Configuring Apache/Tomcat so that Tomcat runs as a proxy through Apache

Advanced TDS management

• Performance Tips
• Restricting Access to Datasets
• Plug-ins: Viewers, Authenticators, Data Sources
• TroubleShooting Problems

TDS IDD Configuration

• What is the IDD?
• Configuring the TDS to use IDD catalogs.
• Configuring the IDD/LDM to make predetermined data structures.
• Managing the IDD datasets.
• Performance enhancements by GRIB indexing

Serving Datasets - Examples

• The LEAD Project use of TDS ppt pdf
• Create an Archive with the Thredds Data Repository (TDR)

This document is maintained by John Caron and was last updated on Aug 1, 2007