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Remote Coral

If on the Cornell campus network, Coral

Coral versus CAC

 As CNF migrates equipment to the new Coral system, you will find that some
equipment is running off of Coral and some off of CAC. Equipment that is still
running off the old CAC system will not be listed in the Coral client.
Conversely, equipment running off the new Coral system will no longer be
listed in the old web scheduling system or in CAC itself.

Remote Coral

 Coral can be run "remotely" from any web browser with an appropriate java
runtime installed. You will need either a version of Java6 or Run the latest
version of Java5. Early versions of Java5 will not work. Java4 and earlier
will also not work.

 Running Remote Coral over a dialup internet connection is not recommended due
to the large size of the files which must be downloaded. Remote Coral also
requires a reasonable amount of horsepower to run.

 Start Remote Coral by clicking the Coral link on the cnfusers web page.

 Local Coral

Java7 or Java8 (Java 6 and earlier are no longer maintained). Versions of Java newer than version 8 may not work – Java8 can be directly downloaded from https://java.sun.com

SeaBird is a web-based application for managing Coral reservations.

Start Remote Coral by clicking the Coral link on the CNFUsers web page.

For more information on accessing Coral from off-campus, please see the Coral Off-Campus page.

Mac OS X and Remote Coral

Make sure to use the Mac link for Remote Coral. Using the non-Mac link will require disabling GateKeeper to run Coral.

Clicking on the "Coral" link on the CNFUsers website will not start Coral but will instead download an Apple DMG (Disk Image), "OpenCoral-Mac.dmg". Look in your Safari downloads and choose to "open" this file, which will open the disk image – a Finder window should open. Double click the "coral.jnlp" file to start Coral. You may receive a warning about running applications downloaded from the Internet.

Local Coral

 "Local" coral is run from your CNF Thin linux account. 

Start Coral either by typing in "coral" (without the quotes) at a command prompt or by choosing Coral from the Applications -> CNF Applications menu.

You can also remotely run "Local" Coral via a login to remote.cnf.cornell.edu. You Sunray linux account. If remotely logging into
your sunray linux account, you will need to enable X11 forwarding/tunneling
and run an X server (such as Exceed on Windows).

If your AFS tokens have expired, you will not be able to run Coral.Start Coral either by typing in "coral" (without the quotes) at a command
prompt or by choosing Coral from the Applications menu.

Viewing Equipment Status and Qualifications

When initially starting Coral, the left most pane will display a list of
process areas. To expand a particular process area and see the equipment under
that area, double click the process area.

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 More information on the status of equipment with yellow or red traffic lights
is available by highlighting either the equipment or the equipment area and
then clicking either the Maintenance or Equipment Status Summary tabs. Each
tab allows you to select which type of statuses to show. The Maintenance tab
also allows a date range search.

 Scheduling Equipment

In the left pane of the Coral client, highlight the piece of equipment for
which you would like to reserve time. In the right pane, select the
"Reservations" tab, and use the mouse to drag and highlight the time period to
reserve. Then, under the "Reservation Actions" menu, choose "Make". A "Machine
Reservation Information" windows pops up. Select the Project and Account to
which you are planning on charging your time (when enabling equipment, you
will choose which project/account is actually charged... this is for your and
for staff information when viewing the reservation). In the "Process" box,
leave any quick notes that staff may need to prepare the equipment for your
use.

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 If you are not yet qualified to use a piece of equipment in the Coral system,
you will not be able to enable that piece of equipment.

 First, highlight the piece of equipment in the left pane. Second, choose
"Enable" from the "Equipment Actions" menu. Next, a "Machine Enable
Information" window pops up. If not already selected, choose the "Project" and
"Account" to which to charge the equipment usage. Then, press "Ok".

 Disabling Equipment

 First, highlight the piece of equipment from the left pane of the Coral
client. Second, choose "Disable" from the "Equipment Actions" menu.

 A box labeled "Run-Data Collector" will appear. Some fields (such as pad
change information) are required and some are optional. While the fields shown
will vary for each piece of equipment, all pieces of equipment will have at
least a few standard fields. These include a "Recipe" field where you may
enter any notes to yourself on the process you performed on the equipment.
The standard fields also include the "Comments for Staff" field, where you
should send any notes to staff concerning your use of the equipment (such as
forgetting to logout or problems using the equipment which you think should
affect how you are charged for your time on the equipment). Problems with the
equipment should also be reported using Coral's built-in problem reporting
mechanism. Once you have entered all your runtime data, click the "Save and
Disable" button.

 Equipment Use History

 From the History tab in the Coral client, you can view a history of who has
used which piece of equipment.

 To view the details of the charged time for a piece of equipment, double click
the entry in the History tab grid. You will not be able to Adjust the "Machine
Charge Information".

 After you click the "OK" button, you will see the "Run Data History" of this
entry. You may adjust the Run Data by clicking the "Adjust" button.

 Advance or step back the weeks displayed by choosing the "Next" and "Previous"
options from the "History Actions" menu.

 Reporting Problems

 If there is a problem, with a piece of equipment, you should follow the normal
lab procedures to post a note on the equipment itself and to contact the staff
member(s) in charge of the tool. You should also, in the Coral client,
highlight the equipment in the left pane and choose "Report Problem" from the
"Equipment Actions" menu. This will mark the equipment with a yellow traffic
light in the Coral client (and allow other users to view the nature of the
problem before entering the lab). Staff can clear the equipment problem from
the Coral client once the problem has been resolved.

 Mutliple problems can be reported for a piece of equipment.

Flash-based Tutorial

Link to flash tutorial on CNFUsers Website