The self-managed server rooms house self-managed machines which are unsuitable for an office environment. They are rooms B.Z14 and B.01 in the basement of the Informatics Forum. These pages tell you how to use them.
You must read this important information on safety and emergencies:
A 'self-managed machine' on our network is any machine other than either a desktop running the DICE managed version of Linux, or a 'Windows Managed Desktop'. For example, a laptop (running any OS), a desktop running Ubuntu, a rackable server running Ubuntu, or a bespoke piece of equipment which has a wired network interface - all of these are 'self-managed machines' in our terminology.
What's a firewall? tells you what a firewall is.
Remote working is about using the School's facilities from outside. This page is specifically about the Informatics network.
Our network perimeter is protected by a stateful firewall: in general, all traffic which originates from within our network is permitted, whilst everything originating from outside is blocked.
In addition to our overall computing Policies and guidelines:
You can log in to several types of server:
Use this to log in to Informatics from home with a full graphical desktop. For details see:
Use this to log in to Informatics from home on the command line. For details see:
The School of Informatics has a remote computer wake-up service. You can use it to wake a computer which is sleeping, as long as that computer is connected to the Informatics network by a network cable, and has a fixed IP address.
Appleton Tower problem, 2024: The wake-up service is currently not working in Appleton Tower, because of recent changes in network equipment. Sorry about this; we're searching for a solution.
On campus, use the secure eduroam network.
This page contains some questions and answers specifically aimed at our local OpenVPN setup. The Official FAQ and documents linked from it contain more general information which may help resolve problems.
Our standard configuration files connect to the endpoints in password-authentication mode. By default you should use your normal DICE username and password for this.
OpenVPN has been tested and works well on Linux, and should work on *BSD.