The harvesting process can be quite time consuming. For simulated data and external forecasts both the available netCDF-files and the available time series are the metadata of the timeseries is stored in the catalogue. The indexing of the time series of simulated data and external forecasts consumes This part of the harvesting can take a lot of time. These indexes are However the metadata of the external forecasts and the simulated data is only needed when you want to retrieve simulated data or external forecasts from the archive by using the Delft-FEWS web services. This feature is only used by limited amount of clients. If you do not use this feature then you can disable this indexing by the following configuration option the archiveServerConfig.xml. Below an example.
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