Storage Administration

Purpose

The Storage Administration allows to make storage known to the OMN system or to use the connections and on the storage and their volumes stored data within OMN. Two different types of storage can be connected to OMN.

OMN allows the creation of a generic storage (= filesystem storages). Only one generic storage can be created per OMN system, and it is automatically always a localhost.

The second type of storage is object storage (implemented with S3).

Access the configuration via

System Configuration → Storage Administration

Possible usage of the Storage Administration

Storage Administration configuration can be used in:

DAM application plugin
Navigation page plugin

Preconditions

To configure Storage Administration, the following needs to be done upfront:

for generic storages
- A local file system must be mounted.
for object storages
- Compatible S3 storage must be set up (MinIO and AWS are supported by the product).

Supported plugins

The Storage Administration supports no other plugins.

General configuration

The configuration of Storage Administration includes the following parts:

Tab Name	Description	Note
Storage Administration	If the Storage Administration level is selected in the left tree, the central view shows a table of all storages configured on the OMN system.	see more details "Storage Administration"
Storage Configuration	Relevant information for the storages can be stored in the storage configuration and, especially for object storages, the credentials are stored here.	see more details "Storage Configuration"
(Storage) Exclusions	The access to specific folders and files on the storage within the OMN system can be restricted. Excluded folders and files are not displayed in the user interface navigation.	see more details "Exclusions"
Volumes	If the volumes level is selected in the left tree, the central view shows a table of all volumes configured in the storage. The table provides a brief overview of the configurations for volumes.	see more details "Volumes"
Volume Configuration	In the Volume Configuration identifier and volume name can be read, the relative path can be changed and the minimalistic check-in can be activated or deactivated.	see more details "Volume Configuration"
Preview generation	The volume settings related to preview generation will be available at a later date.	For the moment disabled.
(Volume) Exclusions	The access to specific folders and files on the volume within the OMN system can be restricted. Excluded folders and files are not displayed in the user interface navigation.	see more details "Exclusions"
Versioning	This tab contains the settings related to file versioning. It can be controlled whether versions should be created automatically and for which file types how many versions can be created and stored in the OMN system.	see more details "Versioning"
Metadata	This tab is available only for object storages and allows the preserving of metadata.	see more details "Metadata"

Tab Name

Description

Note

Storage Administration

If the Storage Administration level is selected in the left tree, the central view shows a table of all storages configured on the OMN system.

see more details "Storage Administration"

Storage Configuration

Relevant information for the storages can be stored in the storage configuration and, especially for object storages, the credentials are stored here.

see more details "Storage Configuration"

(Storage) Exclusions

The access to specific folders and files on the storage within the OMN system can be restricted. Excluded folders and files are not displayed in the user interface navigation.

see more details "Exclusions"

Volumes

If the volumes level is selected in the left tree, the central view shows a table of all volumes configured in the storage. The table provides a brief overview of the configurations for volumes.

see more details "Volumes"

Volume Configuration

In the Volume Configuration identifier and volume name can be read, the relative path can be changed and the minimalistic check-in can be activated or deactivated.

see more details "Volume Configuration"

Preview generation

The volume settings related to preview generation will be available at a later date.

For the moment disabled.

(Volume) Exclusions

The access to specific folders and files on the volume within the OMN system can be restricted. Excluded folders and files are not displayed in the user interface navigation.

see more details "Exclusions"

Versioning

This tab contains the settings related to file versioning. It can be controlled whether versions should be created automatically and for which file types how many versions can be created and stored in the OMN system.

see more details "Versioning"

Metadata

This tab is available only for object storages and allows the preserving of metadata.

see more details "Metadata"

Figure 1. The configuration structure of the Storage Administration

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