Using the Main
Page
Selecting a
User or Group
Viewing
Machines
Viewing
Outlets
Signing
Off
Registering a
Machine
Selecting the Location
Selecting a Building Subnet
Entering Machine Info
Setting Protections
Submit the Registration
Registering an
Outlet
Selecting the Location
Selecting Outlets by Room
Outlet Information
Setting Protections
Submit the Registration
Editing a
Machine
Editing Basic Information
Setting Protections
Adding DNS Resources
Adding DHCP Options
Deleting a Machine
Editing an
Outlet
Viewing Information
Editing the Affiliation
Setting Protections
Deactivating an Outlet
Setting
Protections
Identifying Machine and
Outlet Users
Editing User/Group Rights
Adding a User
Adding a Group
Deleting a User or Group
Managing
Building
Information Activation
Queues
Viewing Information
Searching for Building
Editing Building
Information
Permitting a Subnet in a
Building
Selecting a Queue
Viewing Activations in a
Queue
Managing Queues
Editing/Deleting Queues
About the Network Registration System
Before you can connect your computer to the campus network, you must register certain information about it so that it can be identified and assigned an IP address. If you are using Wireless Andrew or DSL, you need only register your machine. If you will be using a data outlet for your connection, the outlet to which you will connect needs to be activated as well.
Managing Your Machines and Outlets
If you are a business administrator or if you support computers for a department or workgroup, you use this system to register machines and data outlets for yourself. Other people, such as a business administrator, a computing support person for your department, or someone else that you designate may also have access to view and or change your machine and outlet registrations.
Managing Machines and Outlets for a Group
If you are a business administrator or if you support computers for a department or workgroup, you can use this system to administrate machines for the people you support as well as your own machines and outlets.
The Relationship Between Machines and Outlets
There really is no relationship between machines and outlets except that if a machine is to be connected to an outlet, the outlet must be activated.
Computing Services no longer requires that users specify the data outlet to which the machine would be connected. This is no longer necessary and, in the case of machines that will be connected only through Wireless or DSL connections, the machine may never be connected to a data outlet.
However, a machine's registration is specific to a subnet. No network connection will be possible if the computer is connected to a data outlet (even an active one) outside the subnet in which the machine is registered (unless the outlet is a Netbar outlet).
Disolving the relationship between machines and outlets enables a number of administration scenarios. For example, if two people are sharing an office, only one of them needs to register the data outlet. Then, using a hub, both users can connect registered machines to the data outlet. Another example would be that a workgroup's business administrator could register and maintain all the data outlets for the workgroup, but users could register their machines themselves.