Installation guide

Option 1 - As Web application

Installation prerequisites

• A Java Application Server such as Tomcat 8.x installed if you want to use Harvester as a web application
• A Geoportal 2.5.x instance if you plan to harvest to Geoportal 2.x

Installation steps

• Deploy harvester.war to Tomcat (e.g. drop harvester.war into Tomcat webapps folder)
• Restart Tomcat if necessary
• Open Harvester application (e.g. http://localhost:8080/harvester)
• Run quick smoke test by following steps in Quick start guide

Custom configuration - security

Similar to Geoportal, you can configure various authentication options such as simple, LDAP, OAuth2 in Harvester. The main configuration file for security is [Tomcat8]\webapps\harvester\WEB-INF\classes\config\app-security.xml.

• To configure Harvester to use simple authentication, see Security configuration simple
• To configure Harvester to use LDAP authentication, see Security configuration LDAP

Option 2 - As stand alone application

Prerequisites

• JRE or JDK 8.x

Installation steps

• Copy harvest.jar to a destination folder
• Follow instructions in Command line interface to run the tool.