The harvesting process can be quite time consuming. For simulated data and external forecasts the metadata of the timeseries is stored in the catalogue. This part of the harvesting can take a lot of time. 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.
<archiveServer xmlns:arc="http://www.wldelft.nl/fews/archive" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wldelft.nl/fews/archive http://fews.wldelft.nl/schemas//version1.0/archive-schemas/archiveServer.xsd" xmlns="http://www.wldelft.nl/fews/archive" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <archiveEnvironmentName>$prop1$</archiveEnvironmentName> <baseUrlFileServer>http://dummy_server:8080/thredds/fileServer/Archive</baseUrlFileServer> <baseUrlArchiveRootFolder>file:///d:\fews\archive\</baseUrlArchiveRootFolder> <indexForecastTimeSeries>false</indexForecastTimeSeries> </archiveServer>
After you changed this configuration you need to restart tomcat to enable this setting. After the restart you need to clear the catalogue and start the harvester to re-index the catalogue again.
