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  Staff and student e-mail accounts are managed centrally by IT services, and should be created for you automatically when you join the university. Further information, including instructions on how to configure various e-mail clients, can be found on the e-mail page of this wiki, and also at the following locations:
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PPE IT support maintains a supply of IT equipment, including keyboards (both PC and Mac), mice, monitors, audio headsets, USB flash drives, and a plethora of cables and adapters. If you need something to help with your work, please contact us.

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Any use of IT facilities at the University of Glasgow, including the connection of personal devices to the campus network, is subject to the university's Regulations for the use of University ICT systems and facilities, which is included as part of the contractual information provided to new members of staff, or with the information provided to students during registration.

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Accounts

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E-Mail

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PPE machines are generally provided with commonly-used software pre-installed. Information about other available software packages which may be of interest is provided in the software section.

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Printing

Members of the PPE group have access to two sets of printers: managed ("pull") printers, which are supported and maintained by IT Services, and a few local printers supported and maintained by PPE IT support. There is also an A0 colour plotter intended for producing posters.

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IT facilities for PPE staff and students are provided and supported by three separate groups: local PPE IT staff, School of Physics and Astronomy IT staff, and University of Glasgow IT Services staff. Contact details for each group, along with an overview of the services they provide, can be found on the IT management page.

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  • For students, your GUID is your matriculation number followed by the first letter of your surname, and will be set up as part of the registration process with the university. Further information may be found on the IT Services GUID page.

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GUID - used for many university wide services (e.g. VPN service) Computing Service, see http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/it/forstaff/guid/ to create on account
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Passwords

PPE linux passwords can be changed on any PPE linux desktop with the passwd command.

 

System Manager

The PPE IT System Manager is Andrew Pickford, office 473. Email should be sent to ppesysman@physics.gla.ac.uk. See SystemAdministrators

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Printing

The group has a small printer room (484) which contains colour and black and white printers. These are available from linux, windows and osx. The GroupPrinting page and subpages detail how to use and install these printers.

Storage

The PPE file servers store peoples home directories (/home/xxx) and data directories (/data/xxx) for the different experiments. These are available (automatically) via nfs on the linux desktops and via samba in the windows desktops. See FileStorage.

Files in users home directories are backed up overnight and keep for upto six months. See Backups. The /data areas are not backed up, with the exception of /data/ppemgr01 and /data/www01 which are backed up.

System Manager

The PPE IT System Manager is Andrew Pickford, office 473. Email should be sent to ppesysman@physics.gla.ac.uk. See SystemAdministrators

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Information / Documentation Sources

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This TWiki Web (the IT Web) accessable at https://ppes8.physics.gla.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/IT/WebHome covers a lot PPE specific IT issues. Please take the time to look at the TWiki for IT information. If the layout of the TWiki is confusing then please use the TWiki search function. The search link is to the upper part of the left hand sidebar of TWiki pages. The TWiki has several other Webs (ATLAS, DetDev, ScotGrid) and well as the TWiki Web which contains documentation on using the TWiki.
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This TWiki Web (the IT Web) accessable at https://ppes8.physics.gla.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/IT/WebHome covers PPE specific IT issues. Please take the time to look at the TWiki for IT information. If the layout of the TWiki is confusing then please use the TWiki search function. The search link is to the upper part of the left hand sidebar of TWiki pages. The TWiki has several other Webs (ATLAS, DetDev, ScotGrid) and well as the TWiki Web which contains documentation on using the TWiki.
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The following gives an overview of PPE IT and some departmental and university wide IT services.

Accounts

A PPE group member will have serveral accounts:

Account Responsible
PPE linux account - access to the PPE linux desktops PPE System admin
GUPHYSICS Windows - access to the PPE (and departmental) windows desktops Mainly Departmental IT (but the PPE System admin can reset passwords)
Email account (also used for access to departmental linux machine, e.g. login.physics.gla.ac.uk) Departmental IT
GUID - used for many university wide services (e.g. VPN service) Computing Service, see http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/it/forstaff/guid/ to create on account

The Email, GUPHYSICS and PPE account will be setup as part of getting started in the PPE group. Other accounts will require deliberate action to setup.

Information / Documentation Sources

This TWiki Web (the IT Web) accessable at https://ppes8.physics.gla.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/IT/WebHome covers a lot PPE specific IT issues. Please take the time to look at the TWiki for IT information. If the layout of the TWiki is confusing then please use the TWiki search function. The search link is to the upper part of the left hand sidebar of TWiki pages. The TWiki has several other Webs (ATLAS, DetDev, ScotGrid) and well as the TWiki Web which contains documentation on using the TWiki.

For departmental matters there is the [[http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/ITMatters/][IT Matters] web site, which amongst other things has the list of wireless access codes.

University wide the main page for Computing Service is http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/it/.

-- AndrewPickford - 05 Jun 2009

 
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