diff --git a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest.py b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest.py
index b1732881..76251c5d 100644
--- a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest.py
+++ b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest.py
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ def _get_args(self, *args, **options):
     def handle(self, *args, **options):
         """ Ingest one Dataset per file that has not previously been ingested
         """
+        print("WARNING!!! nansat_ingestor app will be deprecated soon and no longer "
+        "accessible. Please use `LOCALHarvester` of geospaas harvesting package instead.")
         non_ingested_uris, n_points, nansat_options = self._get_args(*args, **options)
 
         for non_ingested_uri in non_ingested_uris:
diff --git a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_hyrax.py b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_hyrax.py
index 8edb27dc..a418f45a 100644
--- a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_hyrax.py
+++ b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_hyrax.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ class Command(IngestCommand):
     help = 'Add file to catalog from HYRAX server'
 
     def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        print("WARNING!!! nansat_ingestor app will be deprecated soon and no longer "
+        "accessible. Please use `LOCALHarvester` of geospaas harvesting package instead.")
         print('Searching netcdf files. May take some time...\n\n\n')
         nc_uris = find_netcdf_uris(args[0])
         num_nc_uris = len(nc_uris)
@@ -42,5 +44,3 @@ def find_netcdf_uris(uri0, sleep=1.0):
         print('Server error %s'%e.message)
     # return all links to netCDF
     return nc_uris
-
-
diff --git a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_thredds_crawl.py b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_thredds_crawl.py
index cb7069e5..4e94e2fe 100644
--- a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_thredds_crawl.py
+++ b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/management/commands/ingest_thredds_crawl.py
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ def add_arguments(self, parser):
                             help='''Filename of a specific dataset''')
 
     def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        print("WARNING!!! nansat_ingestor app will be deprecated soon and no longer "
+        "accessible. Please use `LOCALHarvester` of geospaas harvesting package instead.")
         if not len(options['url']) == 1:
             raise IOError('Please provide a url to the data')
         url = options.pop('url')[0]
diff --git a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/tests.py b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/tests.py
index 616ad1c2..cfa80ca5 100644
--- a/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/tests.py
+++ b/geospaas/nansat_ingestor/tests.py
@@ -238,20 +238,20 @@ def test_ingest_no_args(self):
         with captured_output() as (out, err):
             call_command('ingest_thredds_crawl', self.uri)
         output = out.getvalue().strip()
-        self.assertEqual(output, 'Successfully added metadata of 10 datasets')
+        self.assertEqual(output, 'WARNING!!! nansat_ingestor app will be deprecated soon and no longer accessible. Please use `LOCALHarvester` of geospaas harvesting package instead.\nSuccessfully added metadata of 10 datasets')
 
     def test_ingest_with_year_arg(self):
         with captured_output() as (out, err):
             call_command('ingest_thredds_crawl', self.uri, date=['2019/01/24'])
         output = out.getvalue().strip()
-        self.assertEqual(output, 'Successfully added metadata of 10 datasets')
+        self.assertEqual(output, 'WARNING!!! nansat_ingestor app will be deprecated soon and no longer accessible. Please use `LOCALHarvester` of geospaas harvesting package instead.\nSuccessfully added metadata of 10 datasets')
 
     def test_ingest_with_filename_arg(self):
         with captured_output() as (out, err):
             call_command('ingest_thredds_crawl', self.uri,
                          filename='S2A_MSIL1C_20190124T115401_N0207_R023_T30VWP_20190124T120414.nc')
         output = out.getvalue().strip()
-        self.assertEqual(output, 'Successfully added metadata of 10 datasets')
+        self.assertEqual(output, 'WARNING!!! nansat_ingestor app will be deprecated soon and no longer accessible. Please use `LOCALHarvester` of geospaas harvesting package instead.\nSuccessfully added metadata of 10 datasets')
 
 
 class TestIngestThreddsCrawl__crawl__function(TestCase):
diff --git a/geospaas/tests.py b/geospaas/tests.py
index bbbf3274..55a26d8f 100644
--- a/geospaas/tests.py
+++ b/geospaas/tests.py
@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
 from geospaas.utils import utils
 
 class TestUtils(TestCase):
-    @patch('urllib3.PoolManager')
-    def test_validate_uri_opendap_does_not_exist(self, mock_PoolManager):
-        uri = 'http://www.ifremer.fr'
-        mock_PoolManager.status=1
-        with self.assertRaises(OSError) as cm:
-            utils.validate_uri(uri)
-        self.assertEqual('NetCDF: file not found', cm.exception.args[1])
 
     @patch('geospaas.utils.utils.os.path.isfile')
     def test_validate_uri_local(self, mock_isfile):