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How to Use Common Labs at CSA

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Students of the department have 24-hour access to three computing labs (CL1, CL2, and LITEC) located within the department.

Contents
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Machines in the Common Labs Accessing Machines in Common Labs Using Laptops in Common Labs CSA Mails CSA Webpage Other facilities Do's and Dont's

Machines in the Common Labs

Lab Name No of Machines Conguration OS Machine Names IP Range LITEC (Room No. 205) 12 HP Workstations, Intel Xeon dual cores Ubuntu / Linux Mint hp1,hp2,hp3,hp4,...,hp12 10.192.20.16 to 10.192.20.27 CL1 (Room No. 115) 3 + thinclients Sun Thin Clients Oracle Linux 5.7 CL2 (Room No. 103) 7 Pentium 4 Dual Cores Ubuntu

vega, apus, sirius, hp13. hp14. hp15 procyon, algol, phobos, scanner 10.192.13.38, 10.192.20.28 - 30 10.192.13.12 to 10.192.13.18

Accessing Machines in Common Labs

Users have to login into the systems with their usernames provided by the department at the time of joining. Currently you can login into the common lab machines by using your username and password. The systems in CL1 are thin clients. This page describes how to use pendrives in CL1. Users can remotely login into any system in the common labs by using ssh. This page describes how to do SSH without passwords.

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For users accessing the common labs or department resources from outside IISc network use:
ssh ssh username@claccess.csa.iisc.ernet.in or username@144.16.67.22

Upon password prompt please type in your account password. To access the Internet from IISc network you need to set proxy in your browser. This page (http://streams.iisc.ernet.in/proxy-settings.html) describes the procedure to set proxy. Note that you need a username and password (dierent from your CSA username) for using the authenticated proxy (proxy.iisc.ernet.in:3128). You can get a proxy username and password for yourself from SERC by lling up the form at http://nitss.serc.iisc.ernet.in/?page_id=100. You may also use noauthproxy.serc.iisc.ernet.in:3128 (slightly slower speed). If there are any issues please feel free to contact student admins by mailing to studadm@csa.iisc.ernet.in

Using Laptops in Common Labs

You can use your own laptops to access IISc network. You may use the LAN cables provided for that purpose in CL1 or LITEC. You can use DHCP to get an ip address on the LAN. You may also use WLAN, but for that you have to get an account from SERC: http://nitss.serc.iisc.ernet.in/?page_id=82. To install softwares in linux from IISc web repository, follow the instructions in the following page: Using IISc web repo

CSA Mails
All CSA students are provided with an email account which will be username@csa.iisc.ernet.in. This username is same as your login username. You can access your mail from the site https://clmail.csa.iisc.ernet.in The maximum size of the Mailbox which includes all your mail folders is 1GB. If the Mailbox exceeds the quota, your mail account will be blocked. You can go to the OPTIONS tab in squirrelmail (the webmail interface for squirrelmail) and specify your custom mail lters/forwards. Also, you can change your clmail password here (this will also change your common lab login password) To access your mails using desktop clients you may follow the instructions here Clmail Settings for Desktop Mail Clients You can use procmail for ltering mails based on your requirements. Follow the instructions in this page to see how to use procmail. Using Procmail for mail ltering
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You can also add lters to your mails and make some specic mails go to some specic folders in squirrelmail itself. (This works only when you login into squirrelmail and hence increases your login time) For example, you can create a folder Groupmail (Folders-Create Folder in squirrelmail) and create a lter (Options- Message FilterNew) and lter the studentsall mails to that folder by putting "studentsall" in the 'To address' eld of the lter.

CSA Webpage
Students can create personal web pages within the CSA domain. How to create your home page:

1.ssh clweb 2. [for older students] cd /local/system/web/your-user-id [for 2012 batch] cd /local/system/web/cse12/your-user-id or cd /local/system/web/res12/your-user-id 3.Create index.html using vi. 4.Your homepage: [for older students] http://clweb.csa.iisc.ernet.in/your-user-id [for 2012 batch] http://clweb.csa.iisc.ernet.in/cse12/your-user-id or http://clweb.csa.iisc.ernet.in/

If the directory /local/system/web/your-user-id does not exist, write to studadm@csa. If you want your photo to link to your webpage, contact the www@csa.

Other facilities
Printers CSA has two general purpose printers located in CL2 and LITEC. See How to Use CL Printers. Scanner and DVD writer A scanner has been provided for student usage in CL2. It is connected to scanner(system name) (10.192.13.18), rst system from the window, on the right side. See How to use CL Scanner

Do's and Dont's

The students are requested not to unplug the the keyboard, mouse or LAN cable from the common lab systems. Students found adopting such unethical practices will be sternly dealt with. If you want anything to be done on the lab systems you may contact the student admins (studadm@csa.iisc.ernet.in) The students are requested not to lock the screen and leave their accounts logged in on the common lab systems as this is a serious waste of resources. Use (nohup,crontab,screen) to run jobs and logout. If any account is found inactive for more than 90 minutes you will be logged out automatically. In case a user wishes to make use of the common lab machines to run a program please send a mail to the admins informing before hand. The students are requested not to exceed 5GB quota for the home directory and 1GB quota for the webmail. Exceeding the quota will cause your account to be
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locked. The students are requested not to reply to any spam mails which ask for your login and password details. Remember that admins don't need passwords. As it is personal account, do not share the passwords with each other. You will be held wholly responsible for your account and also the actions of others on your account. Eatables are not allowed inside the labs. Don't use your mobile phones for making calls inside the labs. If you want to make a call, kindly go out of the lab and do it. Footwear is not allowed in CL1 and LITEC lab. Please leave your footwear on the rack put outside these labs. The students are requested not to touch the servers present in the respective labs. Also please do not in any case switch o the ACs in the common labs as they are meant for cooling the systems. Retrieved from "http://wiki.csa.iisc.ernet.in/mediawiki/index.php /How_to_Use_Common_Labs_at_CSA" Categories: Technical | Facilities | Information This page was last modied on 9 September 2012, at 10:41.

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