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USGIN Amazon Virtual Server Development

This blog will serve as preliminary documentation for the development of the AZGS Amazon EC2 Instance. The purpose of the machine is to:

1) Provide a production environment for USGIN CSW, WMS and WFS services through GeoNetwork and GeoServer by the Arizona Geological Survey.

2) Provide a model (and AMIs) for other organizations to use in order to build their own Amazon EC2 instances to provide USGIN services.

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Installation and use of Yourkit Java Profiler

Submitted by Ryan Clark on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 3:13pm
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  1. On the virtual machine, create a folder for, and download the Java Profiler, unzip it:
  2. mkdir yourkit (this makes the folder in the root user's home directory)
cd yourkit
wget http://www.yourkit.com/download/yjp-8.0.19.zip
unzip yjp-8.0.19.zip
  3. Generate a script that allows you to use the Yourkit tool from a remote location
  4. java -jar /root/yourkit/yjp-8.0.19/lib/yjp.jar -integrate

Installing GeoNetwork 2.4.2 under Tomcat with a MySQL Backend

Submitted by Ryan Clark on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 2:16pm
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Setup the MySQL Database for Geonetwork to Use

  1. From the command prompt on the instance, type the following commands:
    mysqladmin create geonetwork -u root -p

    You will be prompted for the password for the root MySQL user.

Common Procedures on the EC2 Instance

Submitted by Ryan Clark on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:26am
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"Restarting" the Virtual Machine

You can't actually restart it, instead you essentially delete it and roll-back to a prior machine image.

Connecting to PostgreSQL via SSH Tunneling

Submitted by Ryan Clark on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:01pm
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In the event that you don't want to open port 5432 to any traffic, or you don't want to configure PostgreSQL to listen to any remote traffic, or if you simply can't make it work right (that's where I am right now...) you can use SSH Tunneling to make a remote connection to the PostgreSQL instance. Here's how:

 

Helpful Commands!

Submitted by Ryan Clark on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 11:38am
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