System Administrator’s Workshop (BOM, October 2007)

Australian Bureau of Meteorology

System Administrator’s Workshop

Monday 15 October to Tuesday 16 October

This workshop targets the system administrator whose task is to setup a data service for interactive users, batch processes, and high level web services, that will access netcdf, hdf, or freeform data in a file system or SQL data in a database. The workshop will provide them with the information they need to install and configure Hyrax along with some background on available clients so they can test their servers and give basic advice to users.

9:00am Monday – Start of System Administrator’s workshop

• Overview of OPeNDAP server and client technology

10:00 am Monday – break around 10:30am

• Architecture and Design of Hyrax (system admin point of view)
• Location of services with organization’s network
• Installation of Hyrax

12:30pm Monday

• Lunch

1:30pm Monday

• Hand-on to installation and setup of Hyrax

2:30pm Monday

• Testing the server installation

3:00pm Monday

• Commonly used clients and their different characteristics

4:00pm Monday

• Use-Case for operational services (10 min. presentation on Tuesday)

5:00pm Monday

• Retire until Tuesday morning at 9:00am
• Workshop dinner

9:00am Tuesday – start of 2nd day of workshop

• Presentations of Use-Case for operational services

10:30am Tuesday

• Configuration of the data handlers

12:30pm Tuesday

• Lunch

1:30pm Tuesday

• Installation Advanced issues

2:00pm Tuesday

• Use-Case presentations

3:00pm Tuesday

• Other services hosted within Hyrax
• Future Development Plans

4:00pm Tuesday

• Hands-on advanced topics and issues

5:00pm Tuesday

• End of System Administrator’s Workshop

All attendees are asked to bring a PC laptop and will be given a Linux virtual machine. If people want to use a Mac, they will have to be able to ‘roll with the punches’ when it comes to building code in that environment.

We will provide attendees with a binder for the lecture and hands-on info.

More information about the OPeNDAP workshops is available.

Citations:

• Fox, P. (2007) “OPeNDAP (The Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol) BOM Tutorial Introduction”. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Zenodo, 15 October. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10685266.
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 15). Hyrax Architecture. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685285
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 15). Installation of Hyrax. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685305
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 15). Hyrax Configuration. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685311
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 15). Clients. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685317 Fox, P. (2007, October 15). BOM Tutorial Use Cases. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10791103
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 16). Data Handlers. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685328
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 16). Hyrax Installation: Advanced Topics. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685385
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 16). Other Services in Hyrax. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685402
• Gallagher, J., Potter, N., & West, P. (2007, October 16). Future Development Plans. 2007 OPeNDAP System Administrator’s Workshop, Melbourne, Australia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10685412