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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
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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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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.
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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.