THREDDS Data Server Administration Tutorial

This is the on-line, self-guided tutorial. Follow this link for the 2015 TDS Workshop schedule

TDS Overview (ppt) (pdf)

1.Tomcat Configuration

• Getting Started With the TDS: Local Test Server Setup
• Security Overview

2. TDS Configuration

• Client Catalog Primer
• Basic TDS Configuration Catalogs
• TDS Configuration Catalogs
• Basic threddsConfig.xml
• Adding OGC/ISO Services
• Detailed WMS Configuration
• Netcdf Subset Service: configure, reference
• threddsConfig.xml reference

4. TDS Monitoring and Debugging

• TDS Monitoring and Debugging
• Tomcat and TDS Logs
• Using the TdsMonitor tool
• There are also various free, 3rd-party monitoring and debugging tools:
  • Log analyzers
  • Tomcat manager application
  • Browser-based HTTP header viewers
    • Live HTTP Headers (Firefox Add-On)
    • DevTools (Chrome)
  • JVM monitoring tools
    • VisualVM
    • JConsole

5. Using NcML in TDS

• Basic NcML tutorial
• NcML Aggregation
• Using NcML in the TDS
• NcML Example Problems
• NcML Aggregation Example Problems

6. Feature Collections

• Feature Collections
• GRIB Feature Collections
• GRIB Feature Collection Tutorial
• FMRC (Forecast Model Run Collections)
• FMRC Tutorial
• GRIB Files in CDM
• GRIB Tables in CDM

7. Other Advanced Features

• Restricting dataset access
• Viewer Links

8. Metadata

• THREDDS Metadata
• ISO metadata generation: (ncIso)

9. Production Servers

• Installation Checklist for Production
• TroubleShooting Problems
• Performance Tips
• Upgrading to 4.5

Other Resources:

• Reference documentation
• FAQ