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$ tar xzvf .../OODT/.../filemgr/target/cas-filemgr-...-dist.tar.gz -C /usr/local/oodt/
$ cd /usr/local/oodt/
$ ln -s cas-filemgr-.../ cas-filemgr

Overview of installation

Change directory into the cas-filemgr directory
$ cd /usr/local/oodt/cas-filemgr
$ ls
bin catalog etc lib logs policy

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Restart your filemgr so that it re-reads the filemgr.properties and product-types.xml:
$ cd /usr/local/oodt/cas-filemgr/bin
$ ./filemgr restart

What have we configured?

• A place to store your catalog, i.e. the database of metadata.
• A place to store your ingested files, i.e. the repository.
• The location of your policy directory for product specifications.
• Your mime-types configuration file for file recognition.

How metadata is collected?

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If you're feeling curious, check out the other xml files in the /usr/local/oodt/cas-filemgr/policy/ directory to get a better feel for how we define product types and elements. For a discussion of best practices w.r.t File Manager Policy, the reader is referred to Everything you want to know about File Manger Policy

A brief overview of filemgr-client and query_tool

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Cameron Goodale as written some useful command line tools aliases that are worth mentioning before we continue. See the following two web pages: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-306 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/BASH+and+TCSH+shell+tools+for+File+Manager^{Image Removed}
BASH and TCSH shell tools for File Manager

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