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Statistical Application InstallationBy Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Student Computing Services ManagerIn order to better accommodate the more varied and larger statistical applications available for use by researchers, Academic Computing Services has purchased a server exclusively devoted to the distribution of these resources. Named "GAUSS" after one of the greatest early contributors to statistical science, this machine is now host to all statistical applications and data under the jurisdiction of Research and Statistical Support Services. These duties used to be a part of the load on the ACSLAB server. All current statistical resources will continue to be accessible via the ACSLAB server until June 2003. If you are a user of statistical resources this information will matter little to you technically but it will matter a lot to your network manager who will be installing software to your machine from a different location. All network managers were notified of these changes quite some time ago and are prepared to deal with them. What will be of most impact to users is the fact that ACS/RSS can now offer many more application packages because of the greater hard disk space available. All site-licensed statistical software is now metered utilizing Novell Licensing Services (NLS) which works in conjunction with other Novell services to gather usage data and keep track of license compliance. This data will help ACS/RSS to better track how many licenses to purchase in the future and determine which software packages seem to draw the most utilization. This greatly helps in our abilities to provide better service to you in terms of upgrades and installation numbers. The following instructions are for network managers and outline the procedures for the installation and metering of all statistics software supported by ACS/RSS. If you have any questions regarding software and licensing purchasing please contact Dr. Karl Ho. Any technical questions can be directed to Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner at ehinkle@unt.edu. Novell Licensing Services Tutorial*Prepared by Blake Broyles, ACSLAB technical supportThe purpose of this section is to detail the steps a
Netware Administrator at UNT must take in order to
legally distribute statistics applications to your
general access lab and faculty/staff workstations. License Metering objects have already been created. All you must do is link your statistics application objects to these NLS objects. Currently, NLS objects have been created for the following statistics applications:
These NLS objects are located in the container: Application Metering.ACS.Acad.UNT The applications themselves are located at: STATAPPS.GAUSS.ACS.Acad.UNT and the data and gismaps are located at STATDATA.GAUSS.ACS.Acad.UNT If you had rights to the similar volumes on the ACSLAB server, those rights have been duplicated to these new locations. Note: if you are not prepared yet to use Zenworks objects and NLS, the applications (with the exception of Stata 7, SPSS 11 and NU-DIST) are still available the old way on the ACSLAB server. If using Console One: 1. Open the application object used to actually run the application. Some administrators may have set up separate install and run objects. 2. Under the "Run Options" tab choose "License/Metering". 3. Activate the checkbox next to "Use Novell Licensing and Metering for this application". 4. Click the browse button to the right of the only available text field. 5. Browse to the container specified above and choose the corresponding NLS object. For example, Eviews 4.1's License object is QMS+EViews+4_1.Application Metering.ACS.Acad.UNT 6. Click OK If using NetWare Administrator : 1. Open the application object used to actually run the application. Some administrators may have set up separate install and run objects. 2. Click the "Software Metering" button on the right at the very bottom. 3. Activate the checkbox next to "Use Novell Licensing and Metering for this application". 4. Click the browse button to the right of the only available text field. 5. Browse to the container specified above and choose the corresponding NLS object. For example, Eviews 4.1's License object is QMS+EViews+4_1.Application Metering.ACS.Acad.UNT 6. Click OK Any time a user activates that object, a request will be sent to the NLS object to obtain an available license. If any are available, the user will be granted executable access. If none are available, the user will see a message stating that there are no licenses available for the application. Technical personnel should direct all inquiries to: Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, ehinkle@unt.edu, x4808 or Blake Broyles, beb0013@unt.edu, 369-8665. |