### Getting started with SOD

Following these steps will install SOD on your system and aquaint you with the basics of working with SOD. It shouldn't take more than an hour, and you can feel free to stop at any point and pick up from there later.

1. Download and install SOD
2. Run a demo to see that SOD is working and what SOD produces
3. Look at the Sod Tools, useful in their own right and an easy way to generate SOD recipies
4. Learn how to specify the networks, stations and channels you want
5. Write a recipe to get the earthquakes you want
6. Combine earthquakes and channels to gather seismograms

### Where to go from here

Ingredient Listing
  The ingredient listing defines the structure of a SOD recipe, so they contain explanations of all the subsetters, processors and other ingredients that can go into SOD. Go here to find ingredients to use in your SOD runs that weren't mentioned in the tutorials.
Legacy Execute
  Legacy execute allows you to have SOD execute commands on your system with the data it gathers. Go here to find out how to hook SOD into your existing processing.
Realtime Processing
  If the end time in the event arm extends past now, SOD will continue to run and process events as they happen. This page explains various configuration choices you may want to make to support a standing order like this.