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Appendix: Metacat Properties
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============================
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The most dynamic Metacat Properties are managed using Metacat's Configuration 
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Interface (see :doc:`configuration`). These properties, as well as other, 
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rarely modified ones can be found in the metacat.properties file. For more 
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information about the properties, click one of the following:
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Under construction!
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* Server Properties
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* Application Properties
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* Database Properties
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* Authorization and Authentication Properties
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* XML/EML Properties
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Server Properties
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All of Metacat's server properties are managed with the form-based 
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configuration utility, though they can also be accessed More information on 
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each is included below.
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Metacat Server Properties
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| Property           | Description                                                                              | Example                |
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+====================+==========================================================================================+========================+
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| server.name        | The network host name used to access Metacat. Note that this is not necessarily          | knb.ecoinformatics.org |
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|                    | the physical name of the server running Metacat. The host name should not                |                        |
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|                    | include the protocol prefix (http://).                                                   |                        |
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|                    |                                                                                          |                        |
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|                    | Default Value: localhost                                                                 |                        |
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+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------+
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| server.httpPort    | The network port used to access Metacat for non-secure (standard) connections.           | 80                     |
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|                    | This is usually 80 if Apache Web server is running, and 8080 if Tomcat is running alone. |                        |
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|                    |                                                                                          |                        |
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|                    | Default Value: 80                                                                        |                        |
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+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------+
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| server.httpSSLPort | The network port used to access Metacat for secure connections. This is usually          | 443                    |
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|                    | 443 if Apache Web server is running, and 8443 if Tomcat is running alone.                |                        |
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|                    |                                                                                          |                        |
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|                    | Default Value: 443                                                                       |                        |
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Application Properties
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Metacat's application properties are described below. Properties that can only 
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be edited manually in the ``metacat.properties`` file are highlighted. All 
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others are managed with the properties configuration utility.
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| Property                       | Description                                                                 | Example                       |
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+================================+=============================================================================+===============================+
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| application.metacatVersion     | The Metacat version number. It is set by the build engineer                 | 1.9.0                         |
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|                                | at build time. Usually, the value should never be changed.                  |                               |
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|                                |                                                                             |                               |
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|                                | Default Value: X.X.X (where X.X.X is the current version of Metacat)        |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| application.metacatReleaseInfo | Release information for display purposes. Typically the property            | Release Candidate 1           |
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|                                | is set during the release candidate cycle to let users know which           |                               |
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|                                | candidate they are downloading.                                             |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| application.deployDir          | The directory where Web applications are deployed. Usually, the value       | /usr/local/tomcat/webapps     |
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|                                | is a directory named "webapps" in the Tomcat installation directory.        |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| application.context            | The name of the Metacat application directory in                            | knb                           |
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|                                | the deployment directory. This corresponds to the first part of the         |                               |
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|                                | WAR file name (the part before .war). Most commonly, this                   |                               |
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|                                | is "knb", but it can be changed to other things.                            |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| application.default-style      | A custom Metacat Web skin usually associated with                           | default                       |
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|                                | an organizational theme. If your organization has no                        |                               |
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|                                | custom skin, leave the value as "default".                                  |                               |
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| application.knbSiteURL         | The main KNB website.                                                       | http://knb.ecoinformatics.org |
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|                                |                                                                             |                               |
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|                                | Default Value: http://knb.ecoinformatics.org                                |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| application.datafilepath       | The directory in which to store data files. The directory should            | /var/metacat/data             |
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|                                | be outside the Metacat installation directories so data files will not      |                               |
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|                                | be lost when Metacat is upgraded. The data file directory must be           |                               |
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|                                | writable by the user that starts Tomcat (and thus Metacat).                 |                               |
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|                                |                                                                             |                               |
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|                                | Default Value: /var/metacat/data                                            |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| application.inlinedatafilepath | The directory where inline data files will be stored. Inline                | /var/metacat/inline-data      |
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|                                | data files are created from data that is embedded in EML                    |                               |
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|                                | metadata. The directory should be outside the Metacat installation          |                               |
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|                                | directories so data files will not be lost when Metacat is upgraded.        |                               |
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|                                | For clarity of data, this should probably not be the same as                |                               |
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|                                | ``application.datafilepath``. The data file directory must be               |                               |
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|                                | writable by the user that starts Tomcat (and thus Metacat).                 |                               |
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|                                |                                                                             |                               |
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|                                | Default Value: /var/metacat/inline-data                                     |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| application.documentfilepath   | The directory where metadata files will be stored.                          | /var/metacat/documents        |
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|                                | The directory should be outside the Metacat installation directories        |                               |
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|                                | so document files will not be lost when Metacat is upgraded. For            |                               |
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|                                | clarity of organization, this should probably not be the same as            |                               |
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|                                | ``application.datafilepath`` or ``application.inlinedatafilepath``.         |                               |
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|                                | The data file directory must be writable by the user that                   |                               |
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|                                | starts Tomcat (and thus Metacat).                                           |                               |
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|                                |                                                                             |                               |
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|                                | Default Value: /var/metacat/documents                                       |                               |
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| application.tempDir            | The directory where the Metacat data registry stores temporary              | /var/metacat/temporary        |
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|                                | files. The directory should not be the same as ``application.datafilepath`` |                               |
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|                                | or ``application.inlinedatafilepath`` (or any other persistent file path)   |                               |
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|                                | because all files in this may be purged programmatically. The temporary     |                               |
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|                                | file directory must be writable by the user that starts Apache.             |                               |
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|                                |                                                                             |                               |
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|                                | Default Value: /var/metacat/temporary                                       |                               |
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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Database Properties
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Metacat's database properties are described next. Properties that can only be 
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edited manually in the metacat.properties file are highlighted. All others 
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are managed with the properties configuration utility.
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| Property                                   | Description                                                                                              | Example                                                 |
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+============================================+==========================================================================================================+=========================================================+
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| database.connectionURI                     | The JDBC connection URI for the main database instance of Metacat.                                       | ``jdbc:postgresql://yourserver.yourdomain.edu/metacat`` |
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|                                            | The URI is formatted like: ``jdbc:<database_type>:thin@<your_server_name>:1521:<metacat_database_name>`` |                                                         |
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|                                            | NOTE: You must create an empty database prior to initial Metacat configuration.                          |                                                         |
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|                                            |                                                                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: jdbc:postgresql://localhost/metacat                                                       |                                                         |
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+--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
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| database.user                              | The user for the main database instance of Metacat. The user must                                        | metacat-user                                            |
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|                                            | have already been created on the database.                                                               |                                                         |
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+--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
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| database.password                          | The password of the user for the main database instance of Metacat.                                      | securepassword4843                                      |
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|                                            | The password must have already been created for the user.                                                |                                                         |
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+--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
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| database.type                              | The type of database you are running. Currently, there are two supported                                 | postgres                                                |
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|                                            | types, Oracle and Postgres.                                                                              |                                                         |
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| database.driver                            | The JDBC driver to be used to access the main database instance of Metacat.                              | org.postgresql.Driver                                   |
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|                                            | There is one driver associated with each type of database.                                               |                                                         |
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+--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
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| database.adapter                           | The adapter class that allows Metacat to access your database type.                                      | edu.ucsb.nceas.dbadapter.PostgresqlAdapter              |
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|                                            | There is one adapter associated with each type of database.                                              |                                                         |
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+--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
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| database.scriptsuffix.<database_type>      | The script suffix tells the system which database scripts to run                                         | postgres.sql                                            |
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|                                            | (postgres or oracle) when installing or updating database schema.                                        |                                                         |
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|                                            |                                                                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Values:                                                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.scriptsuffix.postgres=postgres.sql                                                              |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.scriptsuffix.oracle=oracle.sql                                                                  |                                                         |
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| database.upgradeVersion.<database_version> | Which database scripts to run when updating database schema. There is a                                  | upgrade-db-to-1.2                                       |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion entry for every Metacat database schema version.                                 |                                                         |
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|                                            | Each schema version corresponds to an application version.                                               |                                                         |
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|                                            |                                                                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Values:                                                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.0.0.0=xmltables,loaddtdschema                                                    |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.2.0=upgrade-db-to-1.2                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.3.0=upgrade-db-to-1.3                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.4.0=upgrade-db-to-1.4                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.5.0=upgrade-db-to-1.5                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.6.0=upgrade-db-to-1.6                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.7.0=upgrade-db-to-1.7                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.8.0=upgrade-db-to-1.8                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | database.upgradeVersion.1.9.0=upgrade-db-to-1.9                                                          |                                                         |
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+--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
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| database.initialConnections                | The number of initial connection that Metacat creates to the database.                                   | 5                                                       |
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|                                            | Default Value: 5                                                                                         |                                                         |
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| database.incrementConnections              | The number of connections Metacat creates when it requires                                               | 5                                                       |
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|                                            | more connections.                                                                                        |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: 5                                                                                         |                                                         |
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| database.maximumConnections                | The maximum number of database connections Metacat can make.                                             | 25                                                      |
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|                                            | Default Value: 200                                                                                       |                                                         |
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| database.maximumConnectionAge              | The maximum time in milliseconds that a database connection can live.                                    | 120000                                                  |
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|                                            | Default Value: 120000                                                                                    |                                                         |
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| database.maximumConnectionTime             | The maximum time in milliseconds that a database connection can                                          | 60000                                                   |
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|                                            | accumulate in actual connection time.                                                                    |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: 60000                                                                                     |                                                         |
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| database.maximumUsageNumber                | The maximum number of times a single connection can be used.                                             | 100                                                     |
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|                                            |                                                                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: 100                                                                                       |                                                         |
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| database.numberOfIndexingThreads           | The number of threads available for indexing.                                                            | 5                                                       |
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|                                            | Default Value: 5                                                                                         |                                                         |
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| database.indexingTimerTaskTime             | The time in milliseconds between indexing.                                                               | 604800000                                               |
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|                                            | Default Value: 604800000                                                                                 |                                                         |
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| database.indexingInitialDelay              | The delay in milliseconds before first indexing is executed.                                             | 3600000                                                 |
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|                                            | Default Value: 3600000                                                                                   |                                                         |
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| database.maximumIndexDelay                 | The time in milliseconds that an indexing thread will wait when it                                       | 5000                                                    |
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|                                            | can't get a doc id before retrying the indexing.                                                         |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: 5000                                                                                      |                                                         |
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| database.runDBConnectionRecycleThread      | Determines whether the database connection pool should run a thread to                                   | off                                                     |
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|                                            | recycle connections. Possible values are "on" and "off"                                                  |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: off                                                                                       |                                                         |
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| database.cycleTimeOfDBConnection           | The time in milliseconds between connection recycling runs.                                              | 30000                                                   |
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|                                            | Default Value: 30000                                                                                     |                                                         |
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| database.queryignoredparams                | Parameters to ignore in a structured XML query.                                                          | enableediting                                           |
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|                                            | Default Value: enableediting,foo                                                                         |                                                         |
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| database.usexmlindex                       | Determines whether to use XML indexes when finding                                                       | true                                                    |
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|                                            | documents. Possible values are true and false.                                                           |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: true                                                                                      |                                                         |
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| database.appResultsetSize                  | Determines the number of results that can be returned to an application from a query.                    | 7000                                                    |
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|                                            | Default Value: 7000                                                                                      |                                                         |
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| database.webResultsetSize                  | Determines the number of results that can be returned to a                                               | 7000                                                    |
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|                                            | Web browser from a query.                                                                                |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: 7000                                                                                      |                                                         |
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| database.xmlReturnfieldCount               | If the query results of a query are returned more times                                                  | 0                                                       |
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|                                            | than this value, then those results will be inserted into the xml_queryresult                            |                                                         |
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|                                            | table in the database. For example, if you want results for                                              |                                                         |
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|                                            | a query to be stored in xml_queryresult only when it has been requested                                  |                                                         |
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|                                            | 50 times, set this value to 50.                                                                          |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: 0                                                                                         |                                                         |
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| database.queryresultStringLength           | The max size of the query result string in the queryresult table. This                                   | 500000                                                  |
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|                                            | should be set to some number less than 4000 if an Oracle                                                 |                                                         |
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|                                            | database is being used.                                                                                  |                                                         |
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|                                            | Default Value: 500000                                                                                    |                                                         |
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| database.queryresultCacheSize              | The number of query results that will be cached.                                                         | 500                                                     |
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|                                            | Default Value: 500                                                                                       |                                                         |
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| database.queryCacheOn                      | Determines whether query caching is turned on. Possible values are "on" and "off"                        | on                                                      |
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|                                            | Default Value: on                                                                                        |                                                         |
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Metacat's authorization and authentication properties are described in the 
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table below. Properties that can only be edited manually in the ``metacat.properties`` 
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| Property                          | Description                                                                   | Example                                       |
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| auth.class                        | The class used for user authentication. Currently, only the AuthLdap          | edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.AuthLdap               |
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|                                   | class is included in the Metacat distribution.                                |                                               |
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|                                   | Note: If you implement another authentication strategy by implementing a Java |                                               |
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|                                   | class that extends the AuthInterface interface and rebuilding Metacat,        |                                               |
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|                                   | change this property to the fully qualified class name of your custom         |                                               |
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|                                   | authentication mechanism.                                                     |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.AuthLdap                                |                                               |
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| auth.timeoutMinutes               | The number of minutes that a user will stay logged in to Metacat              | 180                                           |
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|                                   | without any activity.                                                         |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: 180                                                            |                                               |
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| auth.administrators               | A colon separated list of LDAP users or groups that have administrative       | uid=youruser,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org |
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|                                   | Metacat privileges. At least one user or group must be entered when           | cn=yourgroup,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org |
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|                                   | Metacat is first installed and configured. All accounts must exist            |                                               |
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|                                   | in LDAP in order to continue with the configuration.                          |                                               |
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| auth.url                          | The URL of the server that Metacat should use for authentication.             | ldap://ldap.ecoinformatics.org:389/           |
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|                                   | Default Value: ldap://ldap.ecoinformatics.org:389/                            |                                               |
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| auth.surl                         | The URL of the server that Metacat should use for secure authentication.      | ldap://ldap.ecoinformatics.org:389/           |
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|                                   | Default Value: ldap://ldap.ecoinformatics.org:389/                            |                                               |
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| auth.base                         | The base part of the distinguished name that Metacat uses for authentication. | dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org                      |
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|                                   | Default Value: dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org                                       |                                               |
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| auth.allowedSubmitters            | A colon delimited list of users who should be allowed to submit documents     | uid=youruser,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org |
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|                                   | to Metacat. If no value is specified, all users will be                       |                                               |
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|                                   | allowed to submit documents.                                                  |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: (none)                                                         |                                               |
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| auth.deniedSubmitters             | A colon delimited list of users who should NOT be allowed to                  | uid=youruser,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org |
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|                                   | submit documents. If no value is specified, all users will be allowed to      |                                               |
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|                                   | submit documents.                                                             |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: (none)                                                         |                                               |
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| ldap.connectTimeLimit             | The time in milliseconds allowed for LDAP server connections.                 | 5000                                          |
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|                                   |                                                                               |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: 5000                                                           |                                               |
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| ldap.searchTimeLimit              | The time in milliseconds allowed for LDAP server searches.                    | 3000                                          |
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|                                   | Default Value: 30000                                                          |                                               |
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| ldap.searchCountLimit             | The number of return entries allowed for LDAP server searches.                | 30000                                         |
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|                                   | Default Value: 30000                                                          |                                               |
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| ldap.referral                     | The type of LDAP referrals to use. Possible values are "follow",              | follow                                        |
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|                                   | "throw" or "none". Refer to LDAP documentation for further information.       |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: follow                                                         |                                               |
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| ldap.onlySecureConnection         | Determines whether to use only a secure LDAP server.                          | false                                         |
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|                                   | Acceptable values are "true" and "false".                                     |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: false                                                          |                                               |
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| ldap.onlySecureReferalsConnection | Determines whether to only use a secure referral server.                      | false                                         |
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|                                   | Acceptable values are "true" and "false".                                     |                                               |
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|                                   |                                                                               |                                               |
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|                                   | Default Value: false                                                          |                                               |
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Metacat's XML/EML properties are described ibelow. Properties that can only be 
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XML/EML Properties
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| Property              | Description                                                      | Example                                           |
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| xml.saxparser         | The SAX parser used to parse XML documents. Metacat              | org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser               |
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|                       | requires a SAX2-compatible XML parser.                           |                                                   |
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|                       | Default Value: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser               |                                                   |
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| xml.eml2_0_0namespace | The namespace of EML 2.0.0 documents.                            | eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0                |
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|                       |                                                                  |                                                   |
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|                       | Default Value: eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0                |                                                   |
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| xml.eml2_0_1namespace | The namespace of EML 2.0.1 documents.                            | eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.1                |
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|                       | Default Value: eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.1                |                                                   |
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| xml.eml2_1_0namespace | The namespace of EML 2.1.0 documents.                            | eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.0                |
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|                       | Default Value: eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.0                |                                                   |
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| xml.packagedoctype    | The doctype of a package file. The system will only              | -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-dataset-2.0.0beta6//EN |
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|                       | recognize documents of this type as package files.               | -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-dataset-2.0.0beta4//EN |
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|                       | See: package documentation.                                      |                                                   |
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|                       | Default Value: -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-dataset-2.0.0beta6//EN |                                                   |
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| xml.accessdoctype     | The doctype of an access control list (ACL) file. The system     | -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-access-2.0.0beta6//EN  |
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|                       | will only recognize documents of this type as                    | -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-access-2.0.0beta4//EN  |
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|                       | access files. See: access control documentation.                 |                                                   |
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|                       | Default Value: -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-access-2.0.0beta6//EN  |                                                   |
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