Spring Quarter Announcements 2018

ICS Computing Support now offers managed computing with FULL Sudo privilege. See supported OS page for more information or send email to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu to get started.

Managed means that ICS Computing Support will:

• Provision the operating system
• Provide constant configuration via pupet
• Provide Single Sign-on
• Ensure NFS Access to ICS Storage Servers, home and extra directories, and the Software Library (/pkg).
• ICS /home /extra directories are snap shotted daily and backed up to tape monthly.
• Package installs from trusted OS repositories.
• Compile new software to install in Software Library
• Limited Sudo for limited number of designated users.
• Any compute role (e.g. MySQL, Apache, MongoDB, Cycle Server)
• Service configuration
• Service and resource Monitoring

Managed with Sudo will include everything from Managed with the following changes:

• Full Sudo
• ICS Storage Servers, home and extra directories, are only available via FUSE.
• There are no snapshots or backups, user must backup data to ICS Storage Servers.
• Docker is available.

Recommended tools, free and open source. Let us know if you have more suggestions.

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