Quick start guide

Harvester Quick Start Guide

Using harvesting CSW records to a local folder as an example for a quick start guide for using Geoportal harvester, following are the steps:

1. Create input broker

• Go to the Harvester web page (e.g. http://localhost:8080/harvester)
• Click on "Brokers" > Input brokers > Add
• Select a broker type (e.g. Catalog Service For the Web)
• Enter necessary information, e.g.
  • title: csw_gis.ncdc.noaa.gov
  • url:: https://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/geoportal/csw
• Submit

2. Create output broker

• Click "Brokers" > Output brokers > Add
• Select a broker type (e.g. Folder)
• Enter necessary information, e.g.
  • Title: myoutputfolder
  • Root folder: \\servername\myoutputfolder (make sure the folder has write permission)
• Submit

3. Create harvest task

• Click on "Tasks" > Tasks > Add
• Select an input
• Select an output
• Submit

4. Run harvest task

• Click on "Tasks"
• Click on "run" link for a particular task on the list
• Check "Ignore robots.txt" and Click on "Ok" to run the task
• Submit

5. Check results

• Click "Home" on the left
• Check the status of current running tasks in the "Processes" section
• When the status shown as "completed", click "history" link for the task to show the harvest result
• Open the output folder (e.g. \\servername\myoutputfolder) to see if there is metadata harvested.