EBAS Documentation contents

• EBAS Commandline User’s Guide
  • 1. About EBAS Commandline
  • 2. Getting started
    • Preparation: getting credentials
      • Operating system user account
      • Database login
      • EBAS User account
    • Connecting to ratatoskr
      • Secure shell
    • Setting up EBAS for your account
      • Database Authentication
        • Interactive database login procedure
        • Semi-interactive database login procedure
        • Automatic database login procedure (recommended)
    • Configuration file
  • 3. General usage
    • Commandline interface
      • How to run an EBAS program
      • Commandline arguments
        • Optional arguments
        • Mandatory arguments
        • Subcommands
      • Program output conventions
        • Data output
        • Logging output
          • Controlling logging information verbosity
      • Finding EBAS Commandline programs
      • Online help function
    • Configuration file
      • Structure of the configuration file
      • Example cofiguration file:
      • Example cofiguration file for a data manager:
  • 4. Database Concepts
    • The EBAS data model
      • Overview
      • Classes of metadata
        • Master data
        • Static metadata
        • History aware metadata
        • Time dependent, history aware metadata
      • Entities
        • Dataset
        • Dataset core metadata
        • Dataset characteristics
        • Additional dataset metadata
        • Time dependent dataset metadata
        • Instrument metadata
          • Instrument core metadata
          • Time dependent instrument metadata
        • Analytical instrument metadata
          • Analytical instrument core metadata
          • Time dependent analytical instrument metadata
          • Time dependent analytical instrument employment
        • QA Metadata
        • Submission
        • Roles
        • Project associations
    • Historic states of data
      • Operation with historic database state (Time travel)
      • Differences between two (historic) database states
    • Near realtime data
  • 5. Shared Commandline Arguments
    • Commandline arguments
      • General arguments
      • Configuration arguments
      • Logging arguments
      • Database arguments
      • Commandline arguments for dataset selection criteria
      • Time interval criteria
      • History arguments
      • On behalf of…
  • 6. Program reference
    • ebas_delete
      • Synopsis
      • Commandline arguments
        • General arguments
        • Configuration arguments
        • Logging arguments
        • Database arguments
        • Commandline arguments for dataset selection criteria
        • Time interval criteria
        • Arguments specific to ebas_extract
      • User interaction
        • Basic confirmation dialog
        • Information dialog
          • Overview of different metadata
          • List of all dataset metadata
          • Verbose information on all datasets
          • Super-verbose information on all datasets
          • Exit dataset information
    • ebas_extract
      • Synopsis
      • Commandline arguments
        • General arguments
        • Configuration arguments
        • Logging arguments
        • Database arguments
        • Commandline arguments for dataset selection criteria
        • Time interval criteria
        • History arguments
        • On behalf of…
        • Arguments specific to ebas_extract
      • Differential extracts
        • Forward and reversed differential extracts
    • ebas_insert
      • Synopsis
      • Commandline arguments
        • General arguments
        • Configuration arguments
        • Logging arguments
        • Database arguments
        • Arguments specific to ebas_insert
    • ebas_instrument_inventory
      • Synopsis
      • Commandline arguments
        • General arguments
        • Configuration arguments
        • Logging arguments
        • Database arguments
        • Commandline arguments for dataset selection criteria
        • Time interval criteria
        • History arguments
        • Arguments specific to ebas_instrument_inventory
    • ebas_list_ds
      • Synopsis
      • Commandline arguments
        • General arguments
        • Configuration arguments
        • Logging arguments
        • Database arguments
        • Commandline arguments for dataset selection criteria
        • Time interval criteria
        • History arguments
        • Arguments specific to ebas_list_ds
    • ebas_plot
      • Synopsis
      • Commandline arguments
        • General arguments
        • Configuration arguments
        • Logging arguments
        • Database arguments
        • Commandline arguments for dataset selection criteria
        • Time interval criteria
        • Database state arguments
        • Arguments specific to ebas_plot
          • Plot arguments
          • Map arguments
          • Statistical arguments
          • Input arguments
          • Output arguments
    • ebas_set_project
      • Synopsis
      • Commandline arguments
        • General arguments
        • Configuration arguments
        • Logging arguments
        • Database arguments
        • Commandline arguments for dataset selection criteria
        • Time interval criteria
        • Arguments specific to ebas_set_projects
      • User interaction
        • Basic confirmation dialog
        • Information dialog
          • Overview of different metadata
          • List of all dataset metadata
          • Verbose information on all datasets
          • Super-verbose information on all datasets
          • Exit dataset information
• EBAS Commandline Release Notes
  • EBAS 3.00.06 Release Notes
    • Features
    • Backported from future releases
      • Features
      • Bugfix
  • EBAS 3.00.07 Release Notes
    • Features
    • Bugfix:
    • Backported from future releases
  • EBAS 3.00.08 Release Notes
    • Special Note
    • Features
    • Bugfix:
    • Backported from future releases
  • EBAS 3.01 Release Notes
    • Special Note
    • Features
    • Bugfix:
    • Backported from future releases
  • EBAS 3.02 Release Notes
    • V.3.02.01
      • Features
    • V.3.02.00
      • Features
      • Bugfix:
• EBAS NASA Ames - File Format Specification
• EBAS diffxml - File Format Specification
  • Purpose of the EBAS diffxml file format
    • Differential extracts
  • EBAS diffxml File Format
    • XML schema
    • How to use the diffxml format
  • Help and Feedback
• Glossary