System Administrator Documentation

Server Background

• What’s new for OMERO 5.4 for sysadmins
• Server overview
• System requirements
• Version requirements
• Example production server set-ups
• Known limitations
• Groups and permissions system
• Administrators with restricted privileges
• Administrator restrictions: relating OMERO.webadmin to OMERO.server

Installation

This section provides guidance on how to install and set up OMERO.server and OMERO.web on any of the supported UNIX and UNIX-like platforms. Following the installation links below you will find specific walkthroughs provided for several systems, with detailed step-by-step instructions. Reading through the OMERO.server installation overview and OMERO.web installation overview pages first is recommended as this explains the entire process rather than just being a series of commands.

• OMERO.server installation overview
• OMERO.web installation overview
• OMERO.server binary repository
• OMERO.server and PostgreSQL
• Installing additional features

Maintenance and Upgrading

This section contains instructions for administering, troubleshooting, backing-up, and upgrading your installation.

• OMERO.cli as an OMERO admin tool
• Troubleshooting OMERO
• OMERO.server backup and restore
• OMERO.server upgrade
• OMERO.web upgrade
• OMERO.web administration
• OMERO upgrade checks
• Moving the data repository
• Migration from OMERO 5.2 on Windows to OMERO 5.3 on Linux

Optimizing Server Configuration

This section 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
• Setting the OMERO_HOME environment variable
• Configuration properties glossary
• Syslog configuration

Optimizing OMERO as a Data Repository

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

• Publishing data using OMERO.web
• OMERO.web UI customization

Data Import and Storage

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

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