Kowari Tutorial

This document presents a tutorial on the usage of the Kowari Metastore^TM. It guides the reader from setting up a server through to using the iTQL^TM command line shell. Before starting this tutorial you should read the installation guide for information on how to build Kowari^TM from the source distribution.

The examples in this tutorial all refer to the host "localhost". Where this appears, you should substitute this with the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your machine. You can find this out as follows.

On a system running a UNIX^® or Linux^® operating system:

$ hostname –f
foo.bar.com

On a system running a Windows^® operating system:

C:\>ipconfig /all

Windows 2000 IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : foo
Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : bar.com

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : bar.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : AMD PCNET Family PCI Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-A6-14-53
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, 22 April 2002 5:57:07 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, 7 May 2002 5:57:07 PM