Setting up metacat

Get metacat started

First find the documentation:

https://metacat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

metacat is a ups (SL7) and spack (AL9) product so you can get it by

(SL7)

setup metacat

or (AL9)

spack load metacat

but you can also do a local install using:

https://metacat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ui.html#installation

Make certain you can point to the metacat server:

export METACAT_AUTH_SERVER_URL=https://metacat.fnal.gov:8143/auth/dune
export METACAT_SERVER_URL=https://metacat.fnal.gov:9443/dune_meta_prod/app

Then authenticate to metacat using your FNAL username and services password:

metacat auth login -m password $USER
Password:
User:    schellma
Expires: Thu Oct 13 16:27:29 2022

See the metacat documentation for other authentication methods such as tokens.