Administration Overview

This section provides information for SODAR administrators on features for maintaining a SODAR instance.

The following extra features are available for SODAR administrators:

• Full access to all projects (Note: iRODS access must be separately granted)

• Ability to create categories on the root level

• Additional site-wide administrative applications

• Access to Django admin UI

• SODAR management commands (Note: shell access to SODAR server required)

• SODAR site settings (Note: server deployment access required)

Note

SODAR is built on the SODAR Core platform. Knowledge of the platform and going through the SODAR Core documentation is highly recommended for SODAR administrators. This section will refer to the SODAR Core docs where applicable. Knowledge of the Django web framework is also very useful.

Note

Deployment of SODAR is outside of this documentation’s scope. To get started with deployment, see the SODAR Docker Compose repository and associated documentation.