This page will serve as the location for DRC Remote Administration testing.

Test One: Cloud-based batch submission

DRC Remote Administration Testing:
Batch Item Submission to Amazon’s EC2 Web Service.

 

These instructions assume you have some experience using DSpace’s administrative web interface to set up communities and collections.  These steps will illustrate how to remotely submit items in batch to a test collection on a DRC Amazon Cloud instance.

Preliminary Requirements:

A) You will need to create a submission package if you do not already have one. The batch_import.zip file at the bottom of this link is easy to use:
Batch Submission

B)  Obtain the necessary Private Key file (it has a .ppk extension) from OhioLINK – this is needed in order to log in to the server with both PuTTY and WinSCP; it is your password so keep this file in a safe place at all times. After the initial tests are completed, OhioLINK will retire this key file from use.

C)  Install necessary software: These instructions assume you will be using a Windows computer.

If you're coming from a Linux machine (Ubuntu/Debian specific) you can use the built-in software, OpenSSH:

To use ssh on Linux, you will first need to convert the .ppk file to an openssh private key file.  You can install the putty-tools package which contains the 'puttygen' command-line utility.  Once installed, from a terminal/shell prompt:

    puttygen <filename of .ppk file> -O private-openssh -o <filename of new openssh keyfile>

To connect to the cloud instance, use ssh from the command-line

    ssh -i <openssh-private-key-file> root@174.129.8.173

D)  After following the instructions in Step A to create a submission package from batch_import.zip, you will have a directory C:\forestry. Please copy it to your ‘My Documents’ folder and rename it “forestry<Your_Institution>” (e.g. forestryWSU; forestryUC; forestryUT, etc.).  Make sure the name of this folder has no spaces or special characters in it.