Guides

Step-by-step instructions on how to achieve common tasks.

Short Guides

We've just started creating a series of short guides, PDF documents ready to print:

• Feb2014: We've started with a Short Quota guide, which backs up the main How to check your file quota guide below.

• Mar2014: We've followed the above up with a Long Running Processes short guide. This backs up the information in our main Long Running Processes guide.

• Aug2014: We've written an ElasticSearch Tutorial showing a way of using our DoC private cloud to create a fleet of Short-lived (Ephemeral) cloud VMs to run a distributed computation as an experiment.

More will follow.

File Storage

How to access and manage your files on network fileservers, including:

• How to ensure your vital data is safely backed-up

• Recovering files from backups

• Laptop Encryption

• How to check your file quota

• See all...

Printing

How to set up and use local printing services:

• Connecting to the departmental printing servers

• Configure a CUPS installation to automatically poll the DoC IPP server

• Printing from the Linux Command-Line

• See all...

Databases

How to access and manage databases housed on one of the Department's database servers.

• Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server databases

• Connecting to PostgreSQL databases

• PostgreSQL connections from off-site

• See all...

Web Hosting

How to set up and use the web-hosting services provided for groups and individuals.

• CGI Scripts

• Personal web pages

• PHP Scripts

• Restricting access to web pages

• See all...

Private IaaS Cloud

You can find the main documentation for the Department's Private IaaS Cloud here, or a number of guides (mostly PDF documents) here:

• Setting up a VM

• Working with Templates

• VM deployment from template, Creating snapshot & template - Short Video

• Generate User API Keys - Video

• VM deployment using APIs - Video

• Download Custom ISO and Create VM - Video

• Read the contents of a VHD file on XCP/XenServer

• Aug2014: We've written an ElasticSearch Tutorial showing a way of using our DoC private cloud to create a fleet of Short-lived (Ephemeral) cloud VMs to run a distributed computation as an experiment.

Java

We provide some information about using Java in special ways in the Department:

• Using JDBC with Postgres and MS SQL Server: A Worked Example

• Kerberos authentication using Java

• Java Servlets, JSP, Tomcat

• Introduction to Java Servlets, JSP, Tomcat etc

• See all...

Computer purchase and support

• A guide on buying desktop, laptop and server computers for use within the department.

• All the new DoC equipment (desktop, laptop, server...) must be tagged before use within the department.

Windows

This information is intended mainly for users of workstations within the Department of Computing. Windows 7 runs on workstations in the student labs, and on machines installed in the last year for staff and research students. Older machines used by staff and research students may still have Windows Vista or even Windows XP; please contact us to upgrade these.

• Introduction to Windows in DoC

Mac

• Introduction to using a Mac in DoC

Users

• What happens when I leave DoC??

Version Control

• Introduction to Version Control

• Version control with Git

• Version control with Git and Gitlab

• Setting up a Group Subversion Repository

• Setting up a Personal Subversion Repository

DoC Virtual Private Networks

WITHDRAWN: We are in the process of decommissioning our DoC VPN, please use the College VPN instead. If you have questions about this, please mail us.

Remote Access to DoC

How to set up and use remote access.

PlanetLab at DoC

Information about PlanetLab.

Long Running Processes on DoC Linux machines

How to avoid inconveniencing other users when you need to run Long Running Processes on DoC Linux machines.