Hyrax Installation and Customization
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Hyrax Installation and Customization
ESIP ‘08 Summer Meeting
Best Practices in Services and Data Interoperability
Dan Holloway
James Gallagher
Outline
• Hyrax Architecture
• Example Configuration of Hyrax
• Hyrax Customization
Hyrax Architecture
• Two (or more) cooperating processes:– Front-end provides DAP interface– Back-end(s) read(s) data
• Both parts can be customized– Front-end: different network protocols– Back-end: different data formats/systems
• N-Tier design is flexible, secure
OLFS BES Data
OLFS
Java Servlet Engine
BES
Unix Daemon
BES Commands
XML- encapsulated object
File system with data files,SQL Database, …
DAP2
THREDDS
HTML
Optional THREDDScatalogs
Hyrax Architecture
Hyrax Architecture Summary
• Hyrax can be installed on one machine or several
• Installation security merits serious consideration
• Authentication & Authorization are handled by the web servers (Tomcat and Apache)
Hands on: Hyrax Configuration
• Choices:– Single or Multiple machine– Single or Multiple back-end servers– Tomcat or Apache web server– Data formats– Catalog customization– Security
• Testing– Command line tools for system administrators– Web browser
ESIP Workshop Configuration
• Run a single BES and the OLFS on one host (the virtual machine running SLAX Linux)
• Use Tomcat running on port 8080
• Data formats: NetCDF and FreeForm
• No custom THREDDS catalog
• No firewall
ESIP Hardware
• SLAX Linux VMware Virtual Appliance
• All the software needed has been built, installed and configured
• Start the virtual machine now…
Starting the Virtual Machine
• Insert the CD-ROM• Drag the opendap_vm and Wintools folders to the Windows
desktop• Copy the ISO image from the CD ROM to the harddisk (in a
command window, mkdir C:\SLAX and then use copy or dd to copy the iso to the new directory).– The dd command is in the Wintools folder– The C:\SLAX directory is coded into the virtual machine; use Vmware
Workstation/Fusion to edit
• Open the opendap_vm folder and double click on the opendap_vm.vmx virtual machine configuration file or start VMware Player/Workstation/Fusion and open opendap_vm.vmx from there.
• The virtual host will boot and the SLAX (slackware Linux with KDE) desktop will appear.
Installing the Software
• Already present on the virtual machine
• But, if it wasn’t, you’d go to the OPeNDAP web site* and download: – Binaries or source for the BES and the
data handlers needed. – Get the OLFS web archive file (which is a
compiled java servlet).– You also need the Tomcat servlet engine
* http://opendap.org/download/hyrax.html
Location of Server Files on the Virtual Machine
• On your virtual machine:– The Tomcat servlet engine is in /usr/local/javadev/apache/tomcat-5.5.12 (this is the value of $CATALINA_HOME)
– The BES, data handlers and related source files are in /usr/local/src. The BES has been built and installed in /usr/local/ ($prefix)
– The OLFS web archive file is $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/opendap.war
– BES: bes.conf, found at $prefix/etc/bes/bes.conf– OLFS: olfs.xml and catalog.xml, found at $CATALINA_HOME/content/opendap
Background: Starting the Server
• Start the BES (back-end data processing component)
• Use bescmdln to verify it’s working• Start Tomcat: This automatically starts
all installed servlets– Servlets are installed by copying the .war
file to the servlet’s webapps directory
• Verify it’s working using a web browser
Start the BES
Verify the BES is running
Start Tomcat & the OLFS
• Typical steps:– Unpack the olfs jar-file– Copy the opendap.war file to Tomcat’s
webapps directory– Start Tomcat
• Since all but the last step has been done already, start Tomcat:
– /usr/local/javadev/apache-tomcat-5.5.12/bin/startup.sh
…terminal view
Verify Tomcat is running
http://localhost:8080
…and Hyrax
http://localhost:8080/opendap
Complete the Configuration
• Steps you would typically perform:– Security: Set up a firewall! Limit access to
port 10002 to this host only – Custom catalogs: Edit the catalog.xml
configuration file. By default automatic catalogs are generated
– Logging: Edit the log4j.xml file. By default all accesses are logged
Stopping Hyrax
First, stop Tomcat using ‘shutdown.sh’
…then stop the BES using ‘besctl’
Hyrax Configuration Summary
• For our chosen configuration, we used only Tomcat, plus the Hyrax web application which consists of the BES and the OLFS
• The tools bescmdln, getdap and a web browser were used to test the installation
• There are a lot of options, but the default settings produce a working server
• Security is a must for a web application; use a firewall to isolate the BES so only the local host can connect to it.