The following table shows GeoNetwork harvesting tests. The goal of these tests is to improve GeoNetwork's cross-platform interoperability. These results do not mean that the servers tested are not interoperable. Instead, they are showing that the combination of the GeoNetwork harvesting mechanism with the specified server and version have problems to interoperate. Those problems could be both in client-side (GeoNetwork harvesting) or in server side, and need to be fixed for the sake of the users community, and to help building connected SDIs.

Server	GN version and build	Harvesting	Harvester URL	Client	Does harvest work?	Error	Protocol & version	Comments
ESRI GeoPortal 1.1.0.41	2.7 Build 7809	CSW	​http://localhost:5555/geoportal/csw?request=GetCapabilities&service=CSW&version=2.0.2	GeoNetwork	Yes - but records without gmd: prefix will be rejected because of a bug in handling of namespaces and prefixes - the bug is #546 and a fix has already been developed for 2.7	CSW 2.0.2		ESRI Geoportal installed on localhost with ISO19115 records. NOTE: If using 'Free text' in search criteria, specify search term with '%' wildcard characters eg. %ESRI% would search for records which have the string ESRI anywhere in their content.
GeoNetwork	2.7 Build 7809	CSW	​http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/csw?request=GetCapabilities&service=CSW&version=2.0.2	ESRI GeoPortal 1.1.0.41	Yes	CSW 2.0.2		ESRI Geoportal harvesting from GeoNetwork using CSW synchronization with Profile 'GeoNetwork CSW 2.0.2 APISO' selected. NOTE: (1) Set the CSW Server Configuration values in Administration->CSW Server Configuration on GeoNetwork before attempting synchronization otherwise you will receive funky error messages in the ESRI Geoportal Add screen about 'title' not set etc. (2) Records must validate against schemas otherwise they will be rejected by the ESRI Geoportal (code says something about isDraft but not sure yet how to tell Geoportal to harvest them as draft/unfinished).
GeoNetwork	2.7 Build 7809	OAIPMH	​http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/oaipmh	ESRI GeoPortal 1.1.0.41	Yes	OAIPMH 2.0		ESRI Geoportal harvesting from GeoNetwork using OAIPMH synchronization with prefix iso19139 and set 'datasets' NOTE Records must validate against schemas otherwise they will be rejected by the ESRI Geoportal.
ESRI Geoportal Extension 9.3.1	2.7 Build 7939	CSW	​http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/geoportal/csw/discovery?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=CSW&Version=2.0.2	GeoNetwork	No	exceptionCode="InvalidParameterValue" locator="ElementSetName" <ExceptionText>ElementSetName is not valid for 'original' outputScheme</ExceptionText>	CSW 2.0.2	This response, which is generated when GeoNetwork sends a GetRecordById request, seems to me to be a trifle odd as both the outputSchema and the elementSetName used by GeoNetwork are advertised in the Geoportal's GetCapabilities statement in the GetRecordById operation section! Fiddling with the GetRecordById request outside of GeoNetwork, I can get the record if I drop the outputSchema, and elementSetName works just fine with brief and summary as well as full. Even more odd is that 'original' is also listed as an outputSchema and when used as an outputSchema it works correctly by returning a dc metadata record.

Older tests:

Server	GN version and build	Harvesting	GetCapabilities URL	Software	Does harvest work?	Error	CSW version	Comments
Spanish SDI	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://www.idee.es/csw/servlet/cswservlet?Request=GetCapabilities	Custom	No	The server does not support GET requests; GeoNetwork is using GET for the GetCapabilities request	2.0.0	Basic web client: ​http://www.idee.es/csw/client.html
BAFG - Germany	2.2 build r1291	CSW	SOAP service, cannot be accessed from GeoNetwork harvesting	Custom-SOAP	No	This Server only supports SOAP, direct requests such as GetCapabilities are not available	???	WSDL (Axis): ​http://geoportal.bafg.de/csw/services/CSW20_Discovery_SOAP_Port?wsdl
ICC (Spain)	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://delta.icc.es/indicio/csw?Request=GetCapabilities	Custom	No	GetCapabilities is null	???
Diputación A Coruña (Spain)	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://www.dicoruna.es/webeiel/ideac/scm?Request=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=CSW	Custom	No	The server does not support GET requests; GeoNetwork is using GET for the GetCapabilities request	???
SANDRE	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://sandre.eaufrance.fr/geonetwork/srv/fr/csw?SERVICE=CSW&REQUEST=GetCapabilities	GeoNetwork 2.2 built locally (based on a 2.2RC2)	Yes		2.0.1
Dutch Space Agency	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://www.geodata.alterra.nl/excat/csw?request=GetCapabilities&service=CSW	Excat (Developed by them)	Yes		2.0.1
LAITS - George Manson University (USA)	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://laits.gmu.edu:8099/csw/CSW_Service?service=CSW&request=GetCapabilities&acceptFormats=text%2Fxml	???	No	Capabilities problem: GetRecordById operation missing	2.0.0
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://ngistc1.agr.gc.ca/registry/RegistryServlet?service=CSW&request=GetCapabilities	???	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.0
Italian G-SDI node	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://zeus.pin.unifi.it/apollo/lucansdi-gi-profile-1.1/csw?REQUEST=getCapabilities&service=CSW&VERSION=2.0.2	???	No	Capabilities problem: "GetRecords" operation missing	2.0.2	This is because GeoNetwork is sensitive to upper-lower case. Capabilities in this node has the operations getRecords, getRecordById (with the first “g” lower-case)
ESRI demo	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://keel.esri.com/catalog/csw202?request=GetCapabilities&service=CSW&version=2.0.2	ArcIMS x.y	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.2
Demo deegree	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://demo.deegree.org/deegree-csw/services?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&service=CSW	deegree 2.1	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.0
AWCUBED	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://server.awcubed.com:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/csw?service=CSW&request=GetCapabilities	GeoNetwork 2.2	Yes		2.0.2
AWCUBED	2.2 build r1291	GeoNetwork	host: server.awcubed.com , port: 8080 , servlet: geonetwork	GeoNetwork 2.2	Yes			Direct GeoNetwork harvesting
NASA	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://esg.gsfc.nasa.gov/wes/serviceManagerCSW/csw?request=GetCapabilities&version=2.0.2	Compusult	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.2
INSPIRE	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://geoportal.jrc.it/csw/CSWStartup?service=CSW&request=GetCapabilities	ConTerra	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.0
GEOSS	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://geossregistries.info:1090/GEOSSCSW202/discovery?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=CSW&Version=2.0.2	George Manson University	No	Capabilities problem: GetRecordById operation missing	2.0.2
Geospatial One Stop (USA Government)	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://gos2.geodata.gov/aimscsw/csw2.0?request=getcapabilities&service=CSW	ESRI ArcIMS 9.1	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.0
Slovakia enviroInfo	2.2 build r1291	CSW	​http://enviroinfo.enviroportal.sk/csw/index.php?service=CSW&request=getCapabilities	?	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.2
Swiss Geographic catalogue	​?	CSW	​http://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?SERVICE=CSW&VERSION=2.0.2&REQUEST=GetCapabilities	GeoNetwork	No	GeoNetwork: "Raised exception when searching"	2.0.2