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What's New at the ADN
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Want to keep up with the ADN Beat
between issues of The ADN Connection?
The ADN "What's New or Different at the Academic Computing and Communications Center" Web page can
keep you up-to-date. There's a link to it at the top of the ADN home page
or visit it directly at: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/home/new.current.html |
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CMS Accounts Harder to Get
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As part of our march to the millennium, we've removed the UICVM CMS option
from our automatic account creation process. Hardly anyone really needs
a new CMS account anymore; this change makes it harder to get one by accident.
If you must open a CMS account (because a particular piece of software
is there and nowhere else, and we don't mean mail or note), go in person
to the CSO or the CSO's consulting office in BGRC. If there is something
that you need that's still on CMS and isn't on tigger or icarus, please
tell us. We'll move it or get a replacement.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but -- yes, this is "handwriting on the
wall." Those of you who routinely use CMS now need not panic, but it would be
wise for you to explore other options. As a first step, you should consider
moving your email to tigger or icarus and begin using pine or Eudora (see How
do I migrate away from CMS mail? from the January/February 1997 ADN Connection.)
Not sure where to go after that? We'll have more for you in future issues of
the ADN Connection and in special Computer Center seminars.
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Win95 News from the Labs
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We are in the process of converting the PCs in the ADN microcomputer labs
to always boot to MS Windows 95 and removing the MS Windows 3.1 and DOS
options. Win3.1 and DOS are obsolete, of course, but please do let us know
if there's something that you or your students need that only works on
Windows 3.1 or if you need help with converting. Settling on a single operating
system also lets us provide extra functions, such as:
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Disk space:
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When you log onto Win95 using your netid and icarus or tigger password,
we now provide you with permanent disk space on the server, available as
your H: drive. You can leave files there and expect to see them
the next time you log in. But remember it's your account so be sure
to logoff when you're finished!
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Printing:
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We no longer allow printing from the public labs unless you first log in
with your netid and icarus password. (We're working on extending this to
tigger passwords. In the meantime, please see the consultants if you need
to print from the labs and don't have an icarus account.) An added benefit
is that your netid will appear on your output, making it much easier to
find. Again, it's your account so be sure to logoff when you're finished!
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Fast Booting:
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In the converted labs, Win95 boots mostly from the local hard drive rather
than entirely over the network. This means dramatically reduced boot times.
However, just to make sure, the local copy of the operating system is checked
during the boot process, and a new copy is downloaded if the local one
has been changed. So you get faster booting -- most of the time -- and
still keep the assurance of always getting a clean copy of the operating
system
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What's New with ADSM (ADN/Datasave)
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Faced with a snowballing slowdown of ADN/Datasave services, we closed off
ADN/Datasave registrations on November 8 to give us some time to analyze
where we were and where we were going. Our analysis is now complete, and
after making a number of adjustments, we have reopened registration. So,
remembering the policy:
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ADN/Datasave is offered only to individual UIC faculty and staff members
for use on their own primary, exclusively used personal computer or workstation.
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Due to resource limitations, each faculty or staff member may register
only one machine.
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ADN/Datasave is not available for use on any PCs in public labs, LAN file
servers, multi-user workstations, or public-access workstations.
You can now register new ADN/Datasave clients via the dsreg command
on UICVM or tigger. (dsreg isn't needed on icarus because students
can't use ADN/Datasave.)
We have also added the capability for you to delete your own obsolete
backups, such as drives from a computer that you no longer use.
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What happened?
The major problem turned out to be the growth in the Computer Center's
use of ADSM to back up tigger, icarus, borg, and our system servers. We
divided the ADSM workload into two ADSM servers, one to serve the Computer
Center's own systems -- tigger, icarus, borg, and so on -- and the other
for everyone else -- the original users of ADN/Datasave. The result has
been that we can now manage each of the servers in a way appropriate to
their very different workloads, and we have succeeded in restoring good
service to the faculty and staff desktop machines that ADN/Datasave was
originally intended for.
How to Delete Files from ADSM
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Open the ADSM backup client as usual, and select a drive from your list
of "Drives for Restore/Retrieve".
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Click on Utilities in the menu bar, then select Delete Restore\Retrieve
Drives.
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An ADSM dialog box opens warning you that:
ALL the data on the server for drive 'drive_name' will be deleted.
ALL DATA will be UNRECOVERABLE for this drive. Do you wish to delete the
drive?
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Click on Yes or No.
(You can't delete individual files from your backups, but ADSM marks files
that you've deleted from your hard drive as "inactive" and automatically
deletes them from the backups after a certain period of time.)
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