Service Desk Knowledgebase: Licensed Software

This is the Licensed Software content page of the CL Wiki Service Desk Knowledgebase. Its purpose is to provide information to the Service Desk team on how to handle problems and requests about this CL service. If you are involved with the provision of this CL service please feel free to add to the knowledge about that it.

If CL staff need to tell the Service Desk team about problems with this service please email
sys-admin-aside@cl.cam.ac.uk.

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Key Service Description & URLs

• Software installation under Unix
• MATLAB
• (La)TeX under Unix - installed under Linux, licenses required for editors under Windows.
• Computer Laboratory News (Twitter use @UC_CL_SysAdm)

CL Customer Documentation

• N/A

Further CL Sys-Admin Resources

• http://www.wiki.cl.cam.ac.uk/clwiki/SysInfo/HelpDesk/Software
• http://www.wiki.cl.cam.ac.uk/clwiki/SysInfo/HelpDesk/LinuxSoftware

People

• Lookup CL Staff & Students
• http://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~CRSid
• Staff and Fellows
• Students and Assistants
• Recent Alumni (3 years)
• Visitors (Admin Database Notes)
• Staff List (Admin Database Notes)
• Jackdaw

Underpinning Services

• N/A

Customer-base for this Service

• All staff & students of the Computer Laboratory

Costs

• Free to all current staff & students of the Computer Laboratory except for MS Office...
• Office licences are provided free to staff & research students of the Computer Laboratory who use Windows as their primary O/S BUT in other case (e.g. Mac Office or taught students) the purchase must be funded.

SLA

• N/A

Service Desk Call Handling Procedure

• RT tickets can be escalated to Graham Titmus by changing the Queue to win-admin and Owner to gt19 & Status as new. Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to Graham Titmus who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

• Mathematica: - we have a limited licence for this RT tickets can be escalated to Chris Hadley by changing the Owner to ckh11 & Status as new. Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to Chris Hadley who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

• Matlab under Linux: - We have some licences in addition to the Matlab Site Licence. Normally people can just access Matlab on Lab machines via /usr/groups/matlab/current/bin/matlab. [NOTE: Matlab server is now lmserv-matlab.cl.cam.ac.uk not lmserv-matlab-research.cl.cam.ac.uk] RT tickets can be escalated to Chris Hadley by changing the Owner to ckh11 & Status as new. Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to Chris Hadley who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

• Matlab under Windows: - We have some licences in addition to the Matlab Site Licence. [NOTE: Matlab server is now lmserv-matlab.cl.cam.ac.uk not lmserv-matlab-research.cl.cam.ac.uk] RT tickets can be escalated to Graham Titmus by changing the Queue to win-admin and Owner to gt19 & Status as new.. Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to Graham Titmus who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

• Windows: - We have an academic alliance site licence which gives us access to Windows O/S & Servers. Accounts are only issued to students and faculty of the Computer Laboratory. If users are asking if they have an account or have forgotten the password you can tell them to login to the site via the "Microsoft Dreamspark for Academic Institutions" link on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/local/sys/microsoft/mssoftware.html and request a password re-issue using the address in the form crsid@cam.ac.uk for students on taught courses and GivenName.FamilyName@cl.cam.ac.uk for others including research students [NOTE: They may have Cert of Postgraduate Study in Jackdaw during their first year of a PhD - taught MPhils have Master of Philosophy]. Tell them to check the spam folder as the email will not come form Cambridge and can easily get trapped by spam filters.
  RT tickets can be escalated to Graham Titmus by changing the Queue to win-admin and Owner to gt19 & Status as new. Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to Graham Titmus who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

• MS Office: - Office licences are provided free to staff & research students of the Computer Laboratory who use Windows as their primary O/S BUT in other case (e.g. Mac Office or taught students) the purchase must be funded.

Contacts

Primary

• Chris Hadley
• Graham Titmus

Availability

• Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm

Hints, Tips & Know Issues

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