Administrator Guide

Intended Audience:

• People who install and/or maintain the TDS
• People who modify TDS configurations
• People who modify existing catalogs in ${tds.content.root.path}/thredds/

Assumption: Users of this guide do NOT have prior knowledge of Unidata jargon, meteorology, netCDF, TDS, etc.

I. Installation & Upgrading

• System Requirements
• Download
• Tomcat sentenv.sh
• Deploying TDS
• Creation of TDS content directory
• Tomcat manager
• TDM installation
• Run behind proxy
• Security Recommendations (currently the putting TDS into production)
• Upgrading

II. TDS Overview & Structure

• TDS structure & how it interacts with the servlet container
• TDS content directory tour
• Recommended places to store your datasets

III. Configuration

• Catalog
• Constructing Access URLs
• Making Data Accessible
  • Nested Datasets
  • Remote Datasets
  • datasetRoot Element
  • datasetScan Element
  • NcML
    • Modifying an existing dataset
    • Virtual datasets
    • NcML aggregation
  • Feature Collections
  • Collection Specification String
• Adding Metadata
  • Describing datasets
  • Exporting THREDDS datasets to digital libraries
  • Sharing metadata amongst multiple datasets
• Making Data Available Via Services
  • Available Services
  • Adding Services
    • Multiple services via the Compound Service Element
  • Dataset Source Plugin
• Organizing Catalogs
  • Catalog references
• TDS Configuration Catalog Files
  • TDS content directory layout
  • ${tds.content.root.path}/thredds/catalog.xml
  • ${tds.content.root.path}/thredds/threddsConfig.xml
  • Revisit the catalog refs
• Customizing the TDS Look and Feel
  • Server Information
  • CSS Stylesheets
  • Thymeleaf Templates
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • Viewers
• Troubleshooting
  • Catalog validation
  • ToolsUI

Monitoring & Debugging

• Catalog validation
• ToolsUI
• Logs

Reference

• Catalog Specification
• TDS Configuration File Reference (threddsConfig.xml)
• TDS Service Reference
  • NetCDF Subset Service
    • Restrictions on what files can be served
  • WMS Service
    • Styling
    • Additional configuration via wmsConfig.xml file
    • Various WCS and WMS clients (mention)
• TDS Reference
• Link to NetCDF Subset Service Reference
• Link to CDM/netCDF-Java docs
• Viewers