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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<TITLE>Metacat</TITLE>
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<TITLE>Metacat Replication</TITLE>
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  <div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#Intro">Metacat Replication</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Overview">Overview</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#DatabasedInfo">Databased Information</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Example">Example</a></div>
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      <div class="toc3"><a href="#gamma">What happens with gamma?</a></div>
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      <div class="toc3"><a href="#alpha">What happens with alpha?</a></div>
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      <div class="toc3"><a href="#lamda">What happens with lamda?</a></div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#ControlPanel">The Replication Control Panel</a></div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#Certificates">Certificates</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#GenerateCertificates">Generate Certificates on both the replication client and server.</a></div> 
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      <div class="toc3"><a href="#GenerateCertTomcat">Generate Certificate for Tomcat standalone (no Apache)</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#RegisterPartner">Register the partner machines certificate</a></div> 
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  <a name="Intro"></a><div class="header1">Metacat Replication</div>
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  <a name="Overview"></a><div class="header2">Overview</div>
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  <p>Metacat has built-in replication to allow different Metacat servers to 
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  share data between themselves. Metacat not only replicates XML documents but 
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  also data files. </p>
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        wind up on lambda.</li>
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<a name="ControlPanel"></a><div class="header1">The Replication Control Panel:</div>      
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  There is an html control panel for controling replication.  After
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  <a href="./Metacatinstall.html">installing</a> Metacat, you can access
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  it by going through the Metacat servlet context you have setup and calling up
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    into the binary certificates file located at $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts</li> 
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    <li>Run the command: 
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   	  <div class="code">keytool -genkey -alias &lt;aliasname&gt; -keyalg RSA -validity 800 -keystore cacerts</div>
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   	  <div class="code">keytool -genkey -alias &lt;aliasname&gt; -keyalg RSA -validity 800 -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts</div>
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     where &lt;aliasname&gt; is a unique name that you choose for this cert.  Something like "&lt;hostname-tomcat&gt"
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     might be appropriate.</li>
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     might be appropriate, where &lt;hostname-tomcat&gt is the name of this host.</li>
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  </li>
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    Password - keytool will ask for a password.  If this is a pre-existing keystore, you will need
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    to know its password to modify it.  If you are creating a new keystore, the password you enter
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    will become the keystore password.
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  <li>Sample values when creating certificate</li>
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    <li>What is your first and last name? <b>myserver.nceas.ucsb.edu </b>
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      and put it into a local file</li>
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    <li>Run the command:
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      <div class="code">keytool -export -alias &lt;aliasname&gt; -file &lt;outputfile&gt;.cert -keystore cacerts</div>
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      <div class="code">keytool -export -alias &lt;aliasname&gt; -file &lt;outputfile&gt;.cert -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts</div>
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      where &lt;aliasname&gt; is the same name you used when you created the certificate.  </li>
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    <li>A file named &lt;outputfile&gt;.cert will be created in the same directory where you run the keytool 
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      command.  You can name the output file anything you like, but keep in mind that it will get sent to the 
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  <li>Enable SSL in Tomcat 
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    <li>Edit the Tomcat server file at $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml</li>
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    <li>uncomment the section that starts with "&lt;Connector port="8443" ...</li>
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  	<li>add another attribute to that section that reads:
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      uncomment the section that starts with "&lt;Connector port="8443" ... (Note: Databased Informationcomments start with
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      &lt;!-- and end with --&gt;).
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  	<li>add two attribute to that section that read:
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  	  <div class="code">keystoreFile="&lt;JAVA_HOME&gt;/lib/security/cacerts"</div>
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  	  where $JAVA_HOME should be the actual java path.
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  	  <div class="code">keystorePass="&lt;keystore_password&gt;"</div>
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  	  where &lt;JAVA_HOME&gt; should be the actual java path and &lt;keystore_password&gt; should be the 
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  	  password you used when you created the keystore.
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  replication server.
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  <li>Import the remote certificate by running:
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    <div class="code">keytool -import -alias &lt;remotehostalias&gt; -file &lt;remotehostfilename&gt;.cert -keystore cacerts</div>
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    <div class="code">keytool -import -alias &lt;remotehostalias&gt; -file &lt;remotehostfilename&gt;.cert -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts</div>
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    where the &lt;remotehostfilename&gt; is the certificate file you created on the remote machine and
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    copied to this machine.  The &lt;remotehostalias&gt; is the name the certificate will use in
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    the keystore.  It should be something that identifies the remote host.  

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