THREDDS Data Server Administration Workshop Schedule

Day One : Managing Tomcat and TDS

8:00 Coffee and continental breakfast

8:30 (John) TDS Overview (ppt)

9:00 Participant Introductions / Survey

• OS / Java / Servlet Container
• OPeNDAP / WCS / NCSS / File serving
• Mandated to use OGC?
• Data Types / File formats
• Experience Level : admin / java / web services / XML
• What problems are you trying to solve?

9:30 (Jenn) Getting Started

• Installing Java & Tomcat
• Tomcat directory structure quick tour
• Running Tomcat
• Deploying the TDS

10:30 Break

10:45 (Ethan) Basic TDS Configuration

• THREDDS Catalog Review
• TDS Configuration Catalogs
• Overview
• Configuration directory
• Root catalog

11:30 Lunch

12:30 (Jenn) Basic Tomcat and TDS Security

• Main server configuration files
• The Tomcat manager application
• Using digested passwords
• Enabling SSL encryption
• Additional security configuration

1:45 (John) TDS Services Overview (ppt)

2:15 (Ethan) TDS Configuration Catalogs

• THREDDS Catalog Review
• TDS Configuration Catalogs
• Root Catalogs
• Managing Dataset Root and Scan Elements
• datasetScan Details

3:00 Break

3:15 (Ethan) TDS Configuration Catalogs - continued

4:15 (John) Configuration and Tools for TDS

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

5:00 Day One Finish

6:00 Dinner TBD

Day Two: Advanced Uses of TDS

8:00 Coffee and continental breakfast

8:30 (Jenn) Server Logging and Statistics

• The TDS Access Log
• Looking at log data

9:15 (John) Restricting Dataset Access

• Restricting dataset access

9:40 (John) Performance (ppt)

• jvisualvm monitor
• Performance Tips

10:00 Break

10:15 (Ethan) Metadata

• Review Real World Servers
• THREDDS Metadata

11:00 (John) Viewer Links

• Viewer Links

11:30 Lunch

12:30 (John) Using NcML in TDS

• Dataset Modification/Dataset Aggregation
• Rich Signell examples
• Use NcML to add CF Conventions

1:30 (John/Ethan) Putting it all together

• getting your data served through TDS

4:00 (John) Preview of TDS 4.x (ppt)

4:30 Open Discussion / Participant feedback

• What features are needed?
• Evaluation forms

5:00 Day Two Finish

This document is maintained by John Caron and was last updated on Nov 5, 2008