How to Setup a Coral Account How to Use Coral

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How to Setup a Coral Account How to Use Coral

• The Materials Engineering
• Electron Microscopy Facility

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(1) Setting Up a Billing Account

• The PI (adviser) for the account has to set up
  the account and give you access.
• This will be your adviser in most cases.
• Website
• http//engineering.purdue.edu/NANO/coral
• Needed Info
• Account numbers
• Project
• Billing Department
• Students to be given access to the account
• If you have any problems with the website send
  the Needed Info to
• For other problems contact John Coy
  ltcoral_at_ecn.purdue.edugt

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(2) Making Contact

• Individuals seeking training and access
• SEM Complete MSE 597 or Contact
  mse-em-admin_at_ecn.purdue.edu
• TEM Complete MSE 582, MSE 640 or Contact
  mse-em-admin_at_ecn.purdue.edu
• After completing training
• Join the appropriate mail list
• https//engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listinf
  o/
• Contact the appropriate instrument mail list
• Request that you Coral permissions be updated
• Note who trained you or the title of the class
• Note your user alias (this should be your ecn
  user name).
• Most common reasons for lack of access
• Failure to fully join necessary mail list
• Lack of card swipe access or its expiration
• Lack of Coral account with a valid account number
• Your alias is different from you e-mail handle
  (your alias is needed to grant permissions)
• AFM Users
• Contact Prof. Blendell ltblendell_at_purdue.edugt

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(3) Card Swipe Access

• Individuals Seeking Training and Access
• Contact the necessary administrator before
  applying for card-swipe access
• Materials Engineering Electron Microscopy
  Facility Card-Swipe Web Form
• https//engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Research/Facili
  ties/Microstructural/EM-Microscopy-ARMS/DoorAccess
  
• Access is updated manually from the submitted
  data
• The most recent update is posted on the
  application form

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(4) Instrument Mail Lists

• Individuals Seeking Training and Access
• You will be directed to the necessary mail list
  by the admin or super user performing your
  training session.
• Materials Engineering Electron Microscopy
  Facility Card-Swipe Web Form
• https//engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listin
  fo/

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Using Coral

• How To Rules

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Using Coral

• Coral access is supported using the following
  link
• http//reef.ecn.purdue.edu
• Your login and password are your Purdue Career
  Account.

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When You Are Off Campus

• You need to use the Purdue VPN client.
• http//www.itap.purdue.edu/connections/vpn/
• You will need to trust two certificates.
• Open Coral Software
• Fingerprints
• MD5 5F CF AF 22 5C 98 A7 65 F0 E9 9F 49 A8 EC
  83 57
• SHA1 9C DC 44 03 0E FD 50 7A 38 F8 79 DC F4 0B
  B6 CD 0C 46 FA 80
• The Legion of the Bouncy Castle
• Fingerprints
• MD5 EA 43 32 1B D1 1E BF 51 D2 1D 96 98 DF 56
  FC 66
• SHA1 B4 29 2D DA 06 B8 24 D6 29 02 89 E3 1E 33
  2D 7A 3F 59 E1 5E

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Using Equipment Billing

• Coral is the method for reservations and billing
  for the MSE Electron Microscopy Facility
• Log Sheets will continue to be used to track
  usage and comments.
• Using Coral
• Reservations
• Enabling a Instrument
• This starts the equipment use and is equivalent
  to signing in on a billing sheet.
• It also disables the interlocks
• Use the instrument.
• Disable the Instrument
• This ends bill and locks out the instrument

See subsequent slides for additional details
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Reservations

• Select the equipment from the equipment tree on
  the left by clicking on it.
• Highlight the time slot you would like to use.
• Under the Reservation Actions menu, select Make
  
• Choose the account and project you would like to
  use.
• To cancel a reservation
• select the reservation and chose Delete from
  the Reservation Actions menu. 
• Note  Equipment you are qualified on will have
  an asterisk next to it.

The above is what the screen should look like as
you reserve time on the T300
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Using an Instrument

• To Enable the System
• Select the equipment you want to use.
• Under the Equipment Actions menu, select Enable
• This starts the equipment use and is equivalent
  to signing in on a billing sheet.
• Use the equipment.
• Disable the Instrument
• When you are finished with the equipment, select
  Disable from the Equipment Actions menu.

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Reporting Equipment Problems

• Report Equipment Issues
• Select the instrument in Coral. 
• Under the Equipment Actions menu, select the
  appropriate level of notification.
• Equipment Action Levels
• Make comment  This is for when you need to
  communicate with the staff about a  non-critical
  equipment issues.  (ie. Glove have run out, one
  of the magnification relays is buggy)
• Report problem  This will change the green arrow
  to yellow.  This action is for equipment that is
  not performing at 100, but is still usable. (ie.
  The instrument is taking too long to pump down)
• Shutdown (Admin Only)  This will change the
  stoplight to RED.  It is for equipment that is
  not functional. (ie. The filament burned out.)

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Viewing Reported Issues

• Click on the instrument of interest
• Select the Maintenance tab
• Select the desired Comment, Problem or Shutdown
  message
• Click Show Message

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Dont Forget to Log Out
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Reservation and Billing Policies

• Reservations may be no more than 4 hrs per
  session or day on any one instrument.
• No more than 12 hours may be reserved on any one
  instrument at any time.
• Adjustments to billed time for failure to disable
  an instrument will be limited to one occurrence
  per person.
• Abuse of reservation policies will be dealt with
  on a case by case basis.