2020 update

You should probably look here.

old (2015-era) stuff below

We are using pycsw from the ioos binstar/anaconda channel, in a custom conda environment:

conda create -n pycsw python=2.7 pycsw gunicorn 

restart the service:

sudo supervisorctl  restart pycsw

check that it's running:

http://geoport.whoi.edu/csw?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetCapabilities