Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Harvesting problem

[Andrea C. <aca...@cr...>]

Hi Michael,

here are some notes:

> There is no error message generated, but there is no data harvested
> either, see message below:
> 
> 2006-09-07 07:31:40 | [geonetwork sync] Searching on : geonetwork
> 2006-09-07 07:31:41 | [geonetwork sync] Obtained:
> <response xmlns:geonet="http://www.fao.org/geonetwork" from="0" to="0">
>   <summary count="0" type="local">
>     <keywords />
>     <categories />
>   </summary>
> </response>
> 2006-09-07 07:31:41 | [geonetwork sync] Start of alignment for site-id : abc
> 2006-09-07 07:31:41 | [geonetwork sync] End of alignment for site-id : abc

Maybe the siteId is wrong or you imported the metadata in a way that bypassed
the lucene indexing. In general, the harvesting performs the same search as you
do in the main page: if you get results here you should get the same results with
harvesting. So, first try the same search using the main page. 

> In the meantime I have managed to get harvesting working, but only
> between two SERVER installations.  So I've installed a new node, which
> is a server GeoNetwork installation pointing to a PostgreSQL database
> and using Tomcat as servlet engine.  The data for which I've set the
> visible privilege to the internet group is harvested.  Other data is
> not.

Correct, if you do not provide an account you can see only public metadata.
 
> 1/  Why is harvesting not working between a desktop installed node and
> a server installed node?  Someone experienced similar behaviour? (Both
> the desktop and server installations have the same configuration
> (using correct port numbers of course...)

The desktop installation uses some defaults so maybe these are wrong.
Beside this, the 2 are identical.
 
> 2/  Why is it necessary to assign the visible privilege to the
> internet group on a certain dataset for that dataset to be harvested?

'view' is the lower privilege so if a metadata can be viewed it can be harvested.
Maybe a separate 'harvest' privilege could be added. What do other users think
about this?

> Because this has some consequenses.  For example: let's take again the
> example of 2 nodes: node A and node B.  I've got some private data on
> node A (and there is a user/group which has access to these private
> data, other users/groups on my node do not have), that I would like to
> share with node B, but not with any other nodes.  Is it possible?

If I understand well, you can:

- create a group G in B
- setup B's harvesting using an A's account to get only your private data
- setup B's harvesting to assing 'view' privileges to group G

> (I know you can create the same user/group on node B holding the
> private data and then revoking the visible and download privilege to
> the internet group.  This solves the problem of internet users
> accessing my data on node B.  But then my data is still accessible to
> other nodes....

Why? If other nodes want to harvest from B they need a B's account.

> Thank you very much,
> Kind regards
> 
> Michael.

Cheers,
Andrea