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help@envsci.rutgers.edu

Your Computer Support Personnel


Michael Ferner
Michael Ferner
Room 249E
848-932-5760
ferner@envsci.rutgers.edu
Michael's Zoom Room




Software

  1. Check the Software Portal for software availability
  2. Software/Computers/Tech Purchasing through DES OIT (vpn/RU network only)
  3. Water Rersources Program Software (vpn/RU network only)
  4. additional purchasing information :
    1. procurement services procedures
    2. security risk assessment process

Computing

  1. DES Computing Facilities (docx)
  2. ICL Printing and Paper Policy
  3. OIT Virtual Computing Labs
  4. Rutgers Remote Desktop Protocol Gateway
  5. Rutgers VPN (virtual private network)
  6. RU sign-out form for offsite and at home computers, computer screens, and/or capitalized equipment

Policies

  1. Netid and Email Account Provisioning/Deprovisioning
  2. Email and Calendaring Systems: Standards and Guidelines
  3. Guidelines for Use of Email for Official Purposes
  4. RU "Equipment Inventory and Property Management" policy
  5. Rutgers Policy List (OIT)
  6. Rutgers University Policy Library

Connecting to Cat5

  1. Host Names for Cat5
    1. jupyterlab: cat5.rutgers.edu
    2. x2go and ssh: cat5.des.rutgers.edu
  2. Cat5 Host Key Fingerprints

Jupyterlab via web browser

  1. cat5.rutgers.edu

Connect to cat5.des.rutgers.edu with X2Go

  1. VPN needed from outside Rutgers networks. Service activation required.
  2. Video: connecting to Cat5 with X2Go
    1. download X2Go client
    2. X2Go documentation
    3. Mac computers need XQuartz

SSH to Cat5

  1. Use the Virtual Computer Labs. Run Xming and SSH (putty) to cat5.des.rutgers.edu
  2. On your windows PC, get and install Xming and Xming-fonts. SSH (putty) to cat5.des.rutgers.edu
  3. If using putty, download and double click this reg file to import a cat5 session into the registry
  4. On your Mac computer, get and install XQuartz. SSH (terminal app) to cat5.des.rutgers.edu
  5. Use "-X" or "-Y" option as indicated on the ssh man pages

Previous Cat5 Documentation cat5 (host name and key hash fingerprints have changed)

  1. Connecting to Cat5 via X2Go from Windows (PDF)
  2. Connecting to Cat5 via X2Go from macOS (PDF)
  3. Connecting to Cat5 via SSH from Windows 10 (PDF)
  4. Connecting to Cat5 via SSH from macOS (PDF)