System Administrator Documentation

Server Background

• What’s new for OMERO 5.1 for sysadmins
• Server overview
• System requirements
• Version requirements
• Example production server set-ups
• Known limitations
• Groups and permissions system

Server Installation and Maintenance

This chapter contains instructions for installing OMERO.server, and for troubleshooting, backing-up, and upgrading your server installation.

• Basic UNIX (and UNIX-like platforms) server installation
• Basic Windows server installation
• Command Line Interface as an OMERO admin tool
• Upgrading and maintenance
• Installing additional features
• Troubleshooting OMERO

Optimizing Server Configuration

This chapter discusses the options for configuring OMERO.server for optimum performance and security.

• Server security and firewalls
• LDAP authentication
• Performance and monitoring
• Search and indexing configuration
• FS configuration options
• Grid configuration
• OMERO.insight webstart security and code-signing
• Setting the OMERO_HOME environment variable
• Configuration properties glossary

Optimizing OMERO as a Data Repository

This chapter explains how to customize the appearance and functionality of OMERO clients to host images for groups or public viewing.

• Customize OMERO clients
• Public data in the repository

Data Import and Storage

This chapter contains details of how OMERO.fs allows you to import and store data with OMERO 5.

• OMERO.dropbox
• In-place import
• Advanced import scenarios