TDS Reference Documentation

THREDDS Catalogs

• Primer
• Specification (as annotated XML Schema)
• Extensions for Server Configuration

THREDDS Data Server (TDS)

System Admin

• Checklist for Production Installation
• Recommended Process for Upgrading a TDS
• Location of Directories
• Running Multiple TDS in a Single Tomcat Instance (not recommended)
• Running The TDS Behind a Proxy Server

Tomcat Configuration

• Tomcat Security
• Tomcat Logging

TDS Administration

• Configuration Catalogs
• DatasetScan
• FeatureCollections
• Logging
• Properties
• Remote Management
• threddsConfig.xml
• Testing a new TDS upgrade

TDS Services

• Catalog Services [default: enabled for locally served catalogs; disabled for remote catalogs]
• Data Access Services:
  • OPeNDAP [default: enabled]
  • NetCDF Subset Service: configure, reference [default: disabled]
  • WCS 1.0 Service [default: disabled]
  • WMS 1.3.0 Service [default; disabled]
• Metadata
  • ncISO: Dataset Metadata Services [default: disabled]
  • OAI Metadata harvesting [default: disabled]
  • also see: Attribute Conventions Dataset Discovery
• Server Information [default: enabled]

Customization

• Dataset Source Plug-in
• Viewer Links

Restricted Access to Datasets

• Restricted Access to Datasets
• Adding your own Authenticator for Restricting Access
• HTTP Security Challenge Messages Example

Thredds Data Manager (TDM)

TDM does background Indexing for GRIB and Point Feature Collections

• Thredds Data Manager (TDM)
• GCPass1 : This is a utility program to examine the files in a collection before actually indexing them.

Also see:

• TDS FAQ
• TDS Tutorial
• TDS Architecture powerpoint
• TDS Performance
• TDS Servlets Configuration

Tomcat Resources:

• Tomcat FAQ (Apache site)
• Tomcat documentation
• How to Install and Get Started with Tomcat
• coreservlets.com tutorial
• Advanced Tutorial on Tomcat
• Tomcat Security

This document is maintained by Unidata and was last updated Mar 2015. Send comments to THREDDS support.