Configuration.json

{
  /**
   * General configuration of Orthanc
   **/

  // The logical name of this instance of Orthanc. This one is
  // displayed in Orthanc Explorer and at the URI "/system".
  "Name" : "MyOrthanc",

  // Path to the directory that holds the heavyweight files (i.e. the
  // raw DICOM instances). Backslashes must be either escaped by
  // doubling them, or replaced by forward slashes "/".
  "StorageDirectory" : "OrthancStorage",

  // Path to the directory that holds the SQLite index (if unset, the
  // value of StorageDirectory is used). This index could be stored on
  // a RAM-drive or a SSD device for performance reasons.
  "IndexDirectory" : "OrthancStorage",

  // Path to the directory where Orthanc stores its large temporary
  // files. The content of this folder can be safely deleted if
  // Orthanc once stopped. The folder must exist. The corresponding
  // filesystem must be properly sized, given that for instance a ZIP
  // archive of DICOM images created by a job can weight several GBs,
  // and that there might be up to "min(JobsHistorySize,
  // MediaArchiveSize)" archives to be stored simultaneously. If not
  // set, Orthanc will use the default temporary folder of the
  // operating system (such as "/tmp/" on UNIX-like systems, or
  // "C:/Temp" on Microsoft Windows).
  // "TemporaryDirectory" : "/tmp/Orthanc/",

  // Enable the transparent compression of the DICOM instances
  "StorageCompression" : false,

  // Maximum size of the storage in MB (a value of "0" indicates no
  // limit on the storage size)
  "MaximumStorageSize" : 0,

  // Maximum number of patients that can be stored at a given time
  // in the storage (a value of "0" indicates no limit on the number
  // of patients)
  "MaximumPatientCount" : 0,
  
  // List of paths to the custom Lua scripts that are to be loaded
  // into this instance of Orthanc
  "LuaScripts" : [
  ],

  // List of paths to the plugins that are to be loaded into this
  // instance of Orthanc (e.g. "./libPluginTest.so" for Linux, or
  // "./PluginTest.dll" for Windows). These paths can refer to
  // folders, in which case they will be scanned non-recursively to
  // find shared libraries. Backslashes must be either escaped by
  // doubling them, or replaced by forward slashes "/".
  "Plugins" : ["./OrthancDicomWeb-1.0/build/libOrthancDicomWeb.so"
  ],

  // Maximum number of processing jobs that are simultaneously running
  // at any given time. A value of "0" indicates to use all the
  // available CPU logical cores. To emulate Orthanc <= 1.3.2, set
  // this value to "1".
  "ConcurrentJobs" : 2,


  /**
   * Configuration of the HTTP server
   **/

  // Enable the HTTP server. If this parameter is set to "false",
  // Orthanc acts as a pure DICOM server. The REST API and Orthanc
  // Explorer will not be available.
  "HttpServerEnabled" : true,

  // HTTP port for the REST services and for the GUI
  "HttpPort" : 8042,

  // When the following option is "true", if an error is encountered
  // while calling the REST API, a JSON message describing the error
  // is put in the HTTP answer. This feature can be disabled if the
  // HTTP client does not properly handles such answers.
  "HttpDescribeErrors" : true,

  // Enable HTTP compression to improve network bandwidth utilization,
  // at the expense of more computations on the server. Orthanc
  // supports the "gzip" and "deflate" HTTP encodings.
  "HttpCompressionEnabled" : true,


  /**
   * Configuration of the DICOM server
   **/

  // Enable the DICOM server. If this parameter is set to "false",
  // Orthanc acts as a pure REST server. It will not be possible to
  // receive files or to do query/retrieve through the DICOM protocol.
  "DicomServerEnabled" : true,

  // The DICOM Application Entity Title (cannot be longer than 16
  // characters)
  "DicomAet" : "ORTHANC",

  // Check whether the called AET corresponds to the AET of Orthanc
  // during an incoming DICOM SCU request
  "DicomCheckCalledAet" : false,

  // The DICOM port
  "DicomPort" : 4242,

  // The default encoding that is assumed for DICOM files without
  // "SpecificCharacterSet" DICOM tag, and that is used when answering
  // C-Find requests (including worklists). The allowed values are
  // "Ascii", "Utf8", "Latin1", "Latin2", "Latin3", "Latin4",
  // "Latin5", "Cyrillic", "Windows1251", "Arabic", "Greek", "Hebrew",
  // "Thai", "Japanese", "Chinese", "JapaneseKanji", "Korean", and
  // "SimplifiedChinese".
  "DefaultEncoding" : "Latin1",

  // The transfer syntaxes that are accepted by Orthanc C-Store SCP
  "DeflatedTransferSyntaxAccepted"     : true,
  "JpegTransferSyntaxAccepted"         : true,
  "Jpeg2000TransferSyntaxAccepted"     : true,
  "JpegLosslessTransferSyntaxAccepted" : true,
  "JpipTransferSyntaxAccepted"         : true,
  "Mpeg2TransferSyntaxAccepted"        : true,
  "RleTransferSyntaxAccepted"          : true,
  "Mpeg4TransferSyntaxAccepted"        : true,  // New in Orthanc 1.6.0

  // Whether Orthanc accepts to act as C-Store SCP for unknown storage
  // SOP classes (aka. "promiscuous mode")
  "UnknownSopClassAccepted"            : false,

  // Set the timeout (in seconds) after which the DICOM associations
  // are closed by the Orthanc SCP (server) if no further DIMSE
  // command is received from the SCU (client).
  "DicomScpTimeout" : 30,


  /**
   * Security-related options for the HTTP server
   **/

  // Whether remote hosts can connect to the HTTP server
  "RemoteAccessAllowed" : false,

  // Whether or not SSL is enabled
  "SslEnabled" : false,

  // Path to the SSL certificate in the PEM format (meaningful only if
  // SSL is enabled)
  "SslCertificate" : "certificate.pem",

  // Whether or not the password protection is enabled (using HTTP
  // basic access authentication). Starting with Orthanc 1.5.8, if
  // "AuthenticationEnabled" is not explicitly set, authentication is
  // enabled iff. remote access is allowed (i.e. the default value of
  // "AuthenticationEnabled" equals that of "RemoteAccessAllowed").
  /**
     "AuthenticationEnabled" : false,
   **/

  // The list of the registered users. Because Orthanc uses HTTP
  // Basic Authentication, the passwords are stored as plain text.
  "RegisteredUsers" : {
    // "alice" : "alicePassword"
  },


  /**
   * Network topology
   **/

  // The list of the known DICOM modalities
  "DicomModalities" : {
    /**
     * Uncommenting the following line would enable Orthanc to
     * connect to an instance of the "storescp" open-source DICOM
     * store (shipped in the DCMTK distribution), as started by the
     * command line "storescp 2000". The first parameter is the
     * AET of the remote modality (cannot be longer than 16 
     * characters), the second one is the remote network address,
     * and the third one is the TCP port number corresponding
     * to the DICOM protocol on the remote modality (usually 104).
     **/
    "hippoai" : [ "HIPPOAI", "127.0.0.1", 106 ]

    /**
     * A fourth parameter is available to enable patches for
     * specific PACS manufacturers. The allowed values are currently:
     * - "Generic" (default value),
     * - "GenericNoWildcardInDates" (to replace "*" by "" in date fields 
     *   in outgoing C-Find requests originating from Orthanc),
     * - "GenericNoUniversalWildcard" (to replace "*" by "" in all fields
     *   in outgoing C-Find SCU requests originating from Orthanc),
     * - "StoreScp" (storescp tool from DCMTK),
     * - "Vitrea",
     * - "GE" (Enterprise Archive, MRI consoles and Advantage Workstation
     *   from GE Healthcare).
     *
     * This parameter is case-sensitive.
     **/
    // "vitrea" : [ "VITREA", "192.168.1.1", 104, "Vitrea" ]

    /**
     * By default, the Orthanc SCP accepts all DICOM commands (C-ECHO,
     * C-STORE, C-FIND, C-MOVE) issued by the registered remote SCU
     * modalities. Starting with Orthanc 1.5.0, it is possible to
     * specify which DICOM commands are allowed, separately for each
     * remote modality, using the syntax below. The "AllowEcho" (resp.
     * "AllowStore") option only has an effect respectively if global
     * option "DicomAlwaysAllowEcho" (resp. "DicomAlwaysAllowStore")
     * is set to false.
     **/
    //"untrusted" : {
    //  "AET" : "ORTHANC",
    //  "Port" : 104,
    //  "Host" : "127.0.0.1",
    //  "AllowEcho" : false,
    //  "AllowFind" : false,
    //  "AllowMove" : false,
    //  "AllowStore" : true
    //}
  },

  // Whether to store the DICOM modalities in the Orthanc database
  // instead of in this configuration file (new in Orthanc 1.5.0)
  "DicomModalitiesInDatabase" : false,

  // Whether the Orthanc SCP allows incoming C-Echo requests, even
  // from SCU modalities it does not know about (i.e. that are not
  // listed in the "DicomModalities" option above). Orthanc 1.3.0
  // is the only version to behave as if this argument was set to "false".
  "DicomAlwaysAllowEcho" : true,

  // Whether the Orthanc SCP allows incoming C-Store requests, even
  // from SCU modalities it does not know about (i.e. that are not
  // listed in the "DicomModalities" option above)
  "DicomAlwaysAllowStore" : true,

  // Whether Orthanc checks the IP/hostname address of the remote
  // modality initiating a DICOM connection (as listed in the
  // "DicomModalities" option above). If this option is set to
  // "false", Orthanc only checks the AET of the remote modality.
  "DicomCheckModalityHost" : false,

  // The timeout (in seconds) after which the DICOM associations are
  // considered as closed by the Orthanc SCU (client) if the remote
  // DICOM SCP (server) does not answer.
  "DicomScuTimeout" : 10,

  // The list of the known Orthanc peers
  "OrthancPeers" : {
    /**
     * Each line gives the base URL of an Orthanc peer, possibly
     * followed by the username/password pair (if the password
     * protection is enabled on the peer).
     **/
    // "peer"  : [ "http://127.0.0.1:8043/", "alice", "alicePassword" ]
    // "peer2" : [ "http://127.0.0.1:8044/" ]

    /**
     * This is another, more advanced format to define Orthanc
     * peers. It notably allows to specify HTTP headers, a HTTPS
     * client certificate in the PEM format (as in the "--cert" option
     * of curl), or to enable PKCS#11 authentication for smart cards.
     **/
    // "peer" : {
    //   "Url" : "http://127.0.0.1:8043/",
    //   "Username" : "alice",
    //   "Password" : "alicePassword",
    //   "HttpHeaders" : { "Token" : "Hello world" },
    //   "CertificateFile" : "client.crt",
    //   "CertificateKeyFile" : "client.key",
    //   "CertificateKeyPassword" : "certpass",
    //   "Pkcs11" : false
    // }
  },

  // Whether to store the Orthanc peers in the Orthanc database
  // instead of in this configuration file (new in Orthanc 1.5.0)
  "OrthancPeersInDatabase" : false,

  // Parameters of the HTTP proxy to be used by Orthanc. If set to the
  // empty string, no HTTP proxy is used. For instance:
  //   "HttpProxy" : "192.168.0.1:3128"
  //   "HttpProxy" : "proxyUser:proxyPassword@192.168.0.1:3128"
  "HttpProxy" : "",

  // If set to "true", debug messages from libcurl will be issued
  // whenever Orthanc makes an outgoing HTTP request. This is notably
  // useful to debug HTTPS-related problems.
  "HttpVerbose" : false,

  // Set the timeout for HTTP requests issued by Orthanc (in seconds).
  "HttpTimeout" : 60,

  // Enable the verification of the peers during HTTPS requests. This
  // option must be set to "false" if using self-signed certificates.
  // Pay attention that setting this option to "false" results in
  // security risks!
  // Reference: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
  "HttpsVerifyPeers" : true,

  // Path to the CA (certification authority) certificates to validate
  // peers in HTTPS requests. From curl documentation ("--cacert"
  // option): "Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to
  // verify the peers. The file may contain multiple CA
  // certificates. The certificate(s) must be in PEM format." On
  // Debian-based systems, this option can be set to
  // "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
  "HttpsCACertificates" : "",


  /**
   * Advanced options
   **/

  // Dictionary of symbolic names for the user-defined metadata. Each
  // entry must map an unique string to an unique number between 1024
  // and 65535. Reserved values:
  //  - The Orthanc whole-slide imaging plugin uses metadata 4200
  "UserMetadata" : {
    // "Sample" : 1024
  },

  // Dictionary of symbolic names for the user-defined types of
  // attached files. Each entry must map an unique string to an unique
  // number between 1024 and 65535. Optionally, a second argument can
  // provided to specify a MIME content type for the attachment.
  "UserContentType" : {
    // "sample" : 1024
    // "sample2" : [ 1025, "application/pdf" ]
  },

  // Number of seconds without receiving any instance before a
  // patient, a study or a series is considered as stable.
  "StableAge" : 60,

  // By default, Orthanc compares AET (Application Entity Titles) in a
  // case-insensitive way. Setting this option to "true" will enable
  // case-sensitive matching.
  "StrictAetComparison" : false,

  // When the following option is "true", the MD5 of the DICOM files
  // will be computed and stored in the Orthanc database. This
  // information can be used to detect disk corruption, at the price
  // of a small performance overhead.
  "StoreMD5ForAttachments" : true,

  // The maximum number of results for a single C-FIND request at the
  // Patient, Study or Series level. Setting this option to "0" means
  // no limit.
  "LimitFindResults" : 0,

  // The maximum number of results for a single C-FIND request at the
  // Instance level. Setting this option to "0" means no limit.
  "LimitFindInstances" : 0,

  // The maximum number of active jobs in the Orthanc scheduler. When
  // this limit is reached, the addition of new jobs is blocked until
  // some job finishes.
  "LimitJobs" : 10,

  // If this option is set to "true" (default behavior until Orthanc
  // 1.3.2), Orthanc will log the resources that are exported to other
  // DICOM modalities or Orthanc peers, inside the URI
  // "/exports". Setting this option to "false" is useful to prevent
  // the index to grow indefinitely in auto-routing tasks (this is the
  // default behavior since Orthanc 1.4.0).
  "LogExportedResources" : false,

  // Enable or disable HTTP Keep-Alive (persistent HTTP
  // connections). Setting this option to "true" prevents Orthanc
  // issue #32 ("HttpServer does not support multiple HTTP requests in
  // the same TCP stream"), but can possibly slow down HTTP clients
  // that do not support persistent connections. The default behavior
  // used to be "false" in Orthanc <= 1.5.1. Setting this option to
  // "false" is also recommended if Orthanc is compiled against
  // Mongoose.
  "KeepAlive" : true,

  // Enable or disable Nagle's algorithm. Only taken into
  // consideration if Orthanc is compiled to use CivetWeb. Experiments
  // show that best performance can be obtained by setting both
  // "KeepAlive" and "TcpNoDelay" to "true". Beware however of
  // caveats: https://eklitzke.org/the-caveats-of-tcp-nodelay
  "TcpNoDelay" : true,

  // Number of threads that are used by the embedded HTTP server.
  "HttpThreadsCount" : 50,

  // If this option is set to "false", Orthanc will run in index-only
  // mode. The DICOM files will not be stored on the drive. Note that
  // this option might prevent the upgrade to newer versions of Orthanc.
  "StoreDicom" : true,

  // DICOM associations initiated by Lua scripts are kept open as long
  // as new DICOM commands are issued. This option sets the number of
  // seconds of inactivity to wait before automatically closing a
  // DICOM association used by Lua. If set to 0, the connection is
  // closed immediately.
  "DicomAssociationCloseDelay" : 5,

  // Maximum number of query/retrieve DICOM requests that are
  // maintained by Orthanc. The least recently used requests get
  // deleted as new requests are issued.
  "QueryRetrieveSize" : 100,

  // When handling a C-Find SCP request, setting this flag to "true"
  // will enable case-sensitive match for PN value representation
  // (such as PatientName). By default, the search is
  // case-insensitive, which does not follow the DICOM standard.
  "CaseSensitivePN" : false,

  // Configure PKCS#11 to use hardware security modules (HSM) and
  // smart cards when carrying on HTTPS client authentication.
  /**
     "Pkcs11" : {
       "Module" : "/usr/local/lib/libbeidpkcs11.so",
       "Module" : "C:/Windows/System32/beidpkcs11.dll",
       "Pin" : "1234",
       "Verbose" : true
     }
   **/
  
  // If set to "false", Orthanc will not load its default dictionary
  // of private tags. This might be necessary if you cannot import a
  // DICOM file encoded using the Implicit VR Endian transfer syntax,
  // and containing private tags: Such an import error might stem from
  // a bad dictionary. You can still list your private tags of
  // interest in the "Dictionary" configuration option below.
  "LoadPrivateDictionary" : true,

  // Locale to be used by Orthanc. Currently, only used if comparing
  // strings in a case-insensitive way. It should be safe to keep this
  // value undefined, which lets Orthanc autodetect the suitable locale.
  // "Locale" : "en_US.UTF-8",

  // Register a new tag in the dictionary of DICOM tags that are known
  // to Orthanc. Each line must contain the tag (formatted as 2
  // hexadecimal numbers), the value representation (2 upcase
  // characters), a nickname for the tag, possibly the minimum
  // multiplicity (> 0 with defaults to 1), possibly the maximum
  // multiplicity (0 means arbitrary multiplicity, defaults to 1), and
  // possibly the Private Creator (for private tags).
  "Dictionary" : {
    // "0014,1020" : [ "DA", "ValidationExpiryDate", 1, 1 ]
    // "00e1,10c2" : [ "UI", "PET-CT Multi Modality Name", 1, 1, "ELSCINT1" ]
    // "7053,1003" : [ "ST", "Original Image Filename", 1, 1, "Philips PET Private Group" ]
    // "2001,5f" : [ "SQ", "StackSequence", 1, 1, "Philips Imaging DD 001" ]
  },

  // Whether to run DICOM C-Move operations synchronously. If set to
  // "false" (asynchronous mode), each incoming C-Move request results
  // in the creation of a new background job. Up to Orthanc 1.3.2, the
  // implicit behavior was to use synchronous C-Move ("true"). Between
  // Orthanc 1.4.0 and 1.4.2, the default behavior was set to
  // asynchronous C-Move ("false"). Since Orthanc 1.5.0, the default
  // behavior is back to synchronous C-Move ("true", which ensures
  // backward compatibility with Orthanc <= 1.3.2).
  "SynchronousCMove" : true,

  // Maximum number of completed jobs that are kept in memory. A
  // processing job is considered as complete once it is tagged as
  // "Success" or "Failure". Since Orthanc 1.5.0, a value of "0"
  // indicates to keep no job in memory (i.e. jobs are removed from
  // the history as soon as they are completed), which prevents the
  // use of some features of Orthanc (typically, synchronous mode in
  // REST API) and should be avoided for non-developers.
  "JobsHistorySize" : 10,

  // Whether to save the jobs into the Orthanc database. If this
  // option is set to "true", the pending/running/completed jobs are
  // automatically reloaded from the database if Orthanc is stopped
  // then restarted (except if the "--no-jobs" command-line argument
  // is specified). This option should be set to "false" if multiple
  // Orthanc servers are using the same database (e.g. if PostgreSQL
  // or MariaDB/MySQL is used).
  "SaveJobs" : true,

  // Specifies how Orthanc reacts when it receives a DICOM instance
  // whose SOPInstanceUID is already stored. If set to "true", the new
  // instance replaces the old one. If set to "false", the new
  // instance is discarded and the old one is kept. Up to Orthanc
  // 1.4.1, the implicit behavior corresponded to "false".
  "OverwriteInstances" : false,

  // Maximum number of ZIP/media archives that are maintained by
  // Orthanc, as a response to the asynchronous creation of archives.
  // The least recently used archives get deleted as new archives are
  // generated. This option was introduced in Orthanc 1.5.0, and has
  // no effect on the synchronous generation of archives.
  "MediaArchiveSize" : 1,

  // Performance setting to specify how Orthanc accesses the storage
  // area during C-FIND. Three modes are available: (1) "Always"
  // allows Orthanc to read the storage area as soon as it needs an
  // information that is not present in its database (slowest mode),
  // (2) "Never" prevents Orthanc from accessing the storage area, and
  // makes it uses exclusively its database (fastest mode), and (3)
  // "Answers" allows Orthanc to read the storage area to generate its
  // answers, but not to filter the DICOM resources (balance between
  // the two modes). By default, the mode is "Always", which
  // corresponds to the behavior of Orthanc <= 1.5.0.
  "StorageAccessOnFind" : "Always",

  // Whether Orthanc monitors its metrics (new in Orthanc 1.5.4). If
  // set to "true", the metrics can be retrieved at
  // "/tools/metrics-prometheus" formetted using the Prometheus
  // text-based exposition format.
  "MetricsEnabled" : true,

  // Whether calls to URI "/tools/execute-script" is enabled. Starting
  // with Orthanc 1.5.8, this URI is disabled by default for security.
  "ExecuteLuaEnabled" : true,

  // Set the timeout for HTTP requests, in seconds. This corresponds
  // to option "request_timeout_ms" of Mongoose/Civetweb. It will set
  // the socket options "SO_RCVTIMEO" and "SO_SNDTIMEO" to the
  // specified value.
  "HttpRequestTimeout" : 30
}