Final setup

Once GeoNetwork is up and running, you have to perform some other steps using the web interface.

Login as admin / admin.

Change the admin pw

Click on the “admin admin (Administrator)” link, then click on “Reset password”. Change and annotate the new password.

Check the system configuration

Click on Admin console > Settings.

Check if the right values are set in these fields:

  • In “Catalog description”
    • Catalog name
    • Organization
  • In “Catalog Server”
    • Host
    • Port (you may want to put 80 here)

You then may want to:

  • Change the folder of the removed metadata
  • Enable search statistics
  • INSPIRE Directive configuration
    • Enable “INSPIRE“
    • Enable “INSPIRE search panel” (to be fixed)
  • Metadata views
  • Setup the CSW server info

CSW

Create a contact for the CSW GetCapabilities. This can be done creating a new user: Admin console > Users and Groups > Manage users > New User

Then you have to select such user as the contact for CSW: Admin console > Settings > Tab CSW > Contact. Select the user you just created as CSW PoC.

Load ISO19139 templates

Admin console > Metadata and templates.

Select the standards you want to import in your catalog (at least ISO19139), and then press the button “Load templates”.

If you need also sample data, load sample as well. You won’t want these sample data in a production catalog.

Enable INSPIRE validation

Admin console > Metadata and templates > Tab Schematron

Click on “INSPIRE Validation Rules” and change the dropdown value from “Ignore this group [...]” to “Require to be valid” (or “Only report errors”, according to your needs).

Repeat for “Inspire strict rules extension”.

Load INSPIRE thesauri

Hint

Official documentation for the INSPIRE setup is at

http://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/eng/users/administrator-guide/configuring-the-catalog/inspire-configuration.html

Admin console > Classification systems > Add thesaurus

Select the “From URL” entry from the choice.

Set this address in the URL field:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geonetwork/util-gemet/master/thesauri/inspire-theme.rdf

And select “Theme” in the dropdown menu.

Once uploaded, you should have the new entry “GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 (theme)”.

Configuration not externalizable

Set INSPIRE as default view

In order to set the INSPIRE view as the default one,

Admin console > Settings.

Edit the field “Configuration par standard” in the “metadata” section.

The string

"iso19139":{"defaultTab":"default"

should be changed into

"iso19139":{"defaultTab":"inspire"

CSS files

In file webapps/geonetwork/catalog/style/gn_search.less look for the lines

@import (less) "inspire/iti.css";
// Import this CSS to have INSPIRE themes translations
//@import (less) "inspire/iti-i18n.css";

and remove the comment from the import.

Log file location

GeoNetwork is configured to output the logs both on console and on file.

You’ll find the console output redirected into the file logs/catalina.out. The configured output log file, which contains some different information, is set to logs/geonetwork.logs. The base dir is set wherever the starting process place it, but starting tomcat with systemd will probably set a read-only location. This means that you may need to set manually the location of the log file.

You have to enter the directory

cd /var/lib/tomcat/geonetwork/webapps/geonetwork/WEB-INF/classes/

and edit the files:

  • log4j-dev.xml
  • log4j-index.xml
  • log4j-search.xml
  • log4j.xml

replacing the line

<param name="File" value="logs/geonetwork.log" />

with

<param name="File" value="/var/lib/tomcat/geonetwork/logs/geonetwork.log" />

You may want to modify the files with this line:

for file in  /var/lib/tomcat/geonetwork/webapps/geonetwork/WEB-INF/classes/log4j*xml ; do sed -i -e s_logs/geonetwork.log_/var/lib/tomcat/geonetwork/logs/geonetwork.log_g $file ; done

Please note that GeoNetwork loads the log4j configuration file according to the setting in Admin console > Settings > section Catalog server > Log level.