What will I learn from this course?
This course is designed to instruct students in installing, managing and monitoring a GeoSpatial Server installation, including the facilities of the GeoSpatial Server Administration console. The course covers common administration tasks such as creating new GeoSpatial Server users along with less common tasks such as configuration of map layer and cache settings.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for system administrators who are responsible for providing service-based access to a Smallworld installation.
Prerequisites
• Familiarity of Smallworld Core Spatial Technology
• Familiarity with configuring and using a J2EE application server such as JBoss
• Smallworld system administration experience, including setup of ACE and Authorisation databases
• Some familiarity with controlling a Smallworld session from the command line
Course Duration
4 Day
Course Objectives
• Following the course, students will be able to:
• Install GeoSpatial Server and run a demo system
• Understand how to build and configure a system for your own database
• Create and configure users
• Monitor your system and perform admin tasks
• Configure layers in the database and create cached maps
• Understand server farms and use GeoSpatial Server in more complex environments
Course Agenda
• Introduction to the course
• Smallworld GeoSpatial Server administration
• Installing Smallworld GeoSpatial Server
• Connector and Agents
• Configuring the database
• Roles and users
• Configuring Plotting and Resources
• Tasks, Monitors and Alerts
• Caching and rollforward
• Localisation
• Server farms and complex environments
• Dimensioning Configuration