[Koha] Z39.50 authority server anyone?

10 Feb 2018

      Hello, I'm trying to set up my Koha as a Z39.50 server. So far I can serve 
biblio data, but can't serve authorities.
Has anybody achieved a working configuration?

This is what yaz-client reports:
yaz-client tcp:biblioteko.esperanto.cat:9999
Connecting...OK.
Sent initrequest.
Connection accepted by v3 target.
ID     : 81
Name   : Zebra Information Server/GFS/YAZ
Version: 4.2.30 98864b44c654645bc16b2c54f822dc2e45a93031
Options: search present delSet triggerResourceCtrl scan sort extendedServices 
namedResultSets
Elapsed: 0.360845
Z> base biblios
Z> find Zamenhof
Sent searchRequest.
Received SearchResponse.
Search was a success.
Number of hits: 509, setno 1
SearchResult-1: term=Zamenhof cnt=509
records returned: 0
Elapsed: 0.066083
Z> base authorities
Z> find Zamenhof
Sent searchRequest.
Received SearchResponse.
Search was a bloomin' failure.
Number of hits: 0, setno 2
Result Set Status: none
records returned: 0
Diagnostic message(s) from database:
    [109] Database unavailable -- v2 addinfo 'authorities'
Elapsed: 0.054520

So, the biblio database is served, but the authority database is unavailable.

To activate the server, I uncommented all the relevant parts of the file /etc/
koha/sites/esperanto/koha-conf.xml:

<!-- Uncomment the following entry if you want to run the public Z39.50 
server.
    Also uncomment the <server> and <serverinfo> sections for id 
'publicserver'
    under PUBLICSERVER'S BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS title-->

<listen id="publicserver" >tcp:@:9999</listen>

However, if you uncomment that aforementioned section, you see it only relates 
to bibliographic records:

<server id="publicserver"  listenref="publicserver">
    <directory>/var/lib/koha/esperanto/biblios</directory>
    <config>/etc/koha/sites/esperanto/zebra-biblios-dom.cfg</config>
    <cql2rpn>/etc/koha/zebradb/pqf.properties</cql2rpn>

    <xi:include href="/etc/koha/marc21-retrieval-info-bib-dom.xml"
 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
 <xi:fallback>
 <retrievalinfo>
       <retrieval syntax="marc21" name="F"/>
       <retrieval syntax="marc21" name="B"/>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="F"/>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="B"/>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="marcxml"
                  identifier="info:srw/schema/1/marcxml-v1.1">
         <backend syntax="marc21" name="F">
           <marc inputformat="marc" outputformat="marcxml"
                 inputcharset="utf-8"/>
         </backend>
       </retrieval>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="dc">
         <backend syntax="marc21" name="F">
           <marc inputformat="marc" outputformat="marcxml"
                 inputcharset="utf-8"/>
           <xslt stylesheet="/usr/share/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/
prog/en/xslt/MARC21slim2DC.xsl"/>
         </backend>
       </retrieval>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="mods">
         <backend syntax="marc21" name="F">
           <marc inputformat="marc" outputformat="marcxml"
                 inputcharset="utf-8"/>
           <xslt stylesheet="/usr/share/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/
prog/en/xslt/MARC21slim2MODS.xsl"/>
         </backend>
       </retrieval>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="rdfdc">
         <backend syntax="marc21" name="F">
           <marc inputformat="marc" outputformat="marcxml"
                 inputcharset="utf-8"/>
          <xslt stylesheet="/usr/share/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/
prog/en/xslt/MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl"/>
         </backend>
       </retrieval>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="rss2">
         <backend syntax="marc21" name="F">
           <marc inputformat="marc" outputformat="marcxml"
                 inputcharset="utf-8"/>
           <xslt stylesheet="/usr/share/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/
prog/en/xslt/MARC21slim2RSS2.xsl"/>
         </backend>
       </retrieval>
       <retrieval syntax="xml" name="utils">
         <backend syntax="marc21" name="F">
           <marc inputformat="marc" outputformat="marcxml"
                 inputcharset="utf-8"/>
           <xslt stylesheet="/usr/share/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/
prog/en/xslt/MARC21slimUtils.xsl"/>
         </backend>
       </retrieval>
    </retrievalinfo>
 </xi:fallback>
 </xi:include>

    <xi:include href="__KOHA_CONF_DIR__/zebradb/explain-biblios.xml"
                xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
      <xi:fallback>
      <explain xmlns="http://explain.z3950.org/dtd/2.0/">
          <serverInfo>
            <host>__ZEBRA_SRU_HOST__</host>
            <port>__ZEBRA_SRU_BIBLIOS_PORT__</port>
            <database>biblios</database>
          </serverInfo>
        </explain>
      </xi:fallback>
    </xi:include>
</server>
<serverinfo id="publicserver">
        <ccl2rpn>/etc/koha/zebradb/ccl.properties</ccl2rpn>
        <user>Carles</user>
        <password>Puigdemont</password>
</serverinfo>

So, do I need a similar 'server' and 'serverinfo' section for authorities? In 
that case, should I also create a 'listen' entry with a different port? What's 
your configuration? Has anybody got an authority server running?

Rubén Fernández

[Koha] Z39.50 authority server anyone?

Rubeno Fernández