How to Setup a Coral Account How to Use Coral

1. How to Setup a Coral Account How to Use Coral The Materials Engineering Electron Microscopy Facility

2. (1) Setting Up a Billing Account • The PI (adviser) for the account has to set up the account and give you access. • This will be your adviser in most cases. • Website • http://engineering.purdue.edu/NANO/coral • Needed Info: • Account numbers • Project • Billing Department • Students to be given access to the account • If you have any problems with the website send the “Needed Info” to: • For other problems contact John Coy <coral@ecn.purdue.edu>

3. (2) Making Contact • Individuals seeking training and access: • SEM: Complete MSE 597 or Contact mse-em-admin@ecn.purdue.edu • TEM: Complete MSE 582, MSE 640 or Contact mse-em-admin@ecn.purdue.edu • After completing training • Join the appropriate mail list • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listinfo/ • Contact the appropriate instrument mail list: • Request that you Coral permissions be updated • Note who trained you or the title of the class • Note your user alias (this should be your ecn user name). • Most common reasons for lack of access • Failure to fully join necessary mail list • Lack of card swipe access or its expiration • Lack of Coral account with a valid account number • Your alias is different from you e-mail handle (your alias is needed to grant permissions) • AFM Users: • Contact Prof. Blendell <blendell@purdue.edu>

4. (3) Card Swipe Access • Individuals Seeking Training and Access: • Contact the necessary administrator before applying for card-swipe access • Materials Engineering Electron Microscopy Facility Card-Swipe Web Form: • https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Research/Facilities/Microstructural/EM-Microscopy-ARMS/DoorAccess • Access is updated manually from the submitted data • The most recent update is posted on the application form

5. (4) Instrument Mail Lists • Individuals Seeking Training and Access: • You will be directed to the necessary mail list by the admin or super user performing your training session. • Materials Engineering Electron Microscopy Facility Card-Swipe Web Form: • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listinfo/

6. Using Coral How To & Rules

7. Using Coral • Coral access is supported using the following link: • http://reef.ecn.purdue.edu • Your login and password are your Purdue Career Account.

8. When You Are Off Campus • You need to use the Purdue VPN client. • http://www.itap.purdue.edu/connections/vpn/ • You will need to trust two certificates. • Open Coral Software Fingerprints • MD5 5F CF AF 22 5C 98 A7 65 F0 E9 9F 49 A8 EC 83 57 • SHA1 9C DC 44 03 0E FD 50 7A 38 F8 79 DC F4 0B B6 CD 0C 46 FA 80 • The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Fingerprints • MD5 EA 43 32 1B D1 1E BF 51 D2 1D 96 98 DF 56 FC 66 • SHA1 B4 29 2D DA 06 B8 24 D6 29 02 89 E3 1E 33 2D 7A 3F 59 E1 5E

9. Using Equipment & Billing • Coral is the method for reservations and billing for the MSE Electron Microscopy Facility • Log Sheets will continue to be used to track usage and comments. • Using Coral • Reservations • Enabling a Instrument: • This starts the equipment use and is equivalent to signing in on a billing sheet. • It also disables the interlocks • Use the instrument. • Disable the Instrument • This ends bill and locks out the instrument See subsequent slides for additional details

10. Reservations • Select the equipment from the equipment tree on the left by clicking on it. • Highlight the time slot you would like to use. • Under the Reservation Actions menu, select “Make” • Choose the account and project you would like to use. • To cancel a reservation: • select the reservation and chose “Delete” from the Reservation Actions menu.  • Note:  Equipment you are qualified on will have an asterisk next to it. The above is what the screen should look like as you reserve time on the T300

11. Using an Instrument • To “Enable” the System: • Select the equipment you want to use. • Under the Equipment Actions menu, select Enable • This starts the equipment use and is equivalent to signing in on a billing sheet. • Use the equipment. • Disable the Instrument • When you are finished with the equipment, select Disable from the Equipment Actions menu.

12. Reporting Equipment Problems • Report Equipment Issues: • Select the instrument in Coral.  • Under the Equipment Actions menu, select the appropriate level of notification. Equipment Action Levels: • Make comment:  This is for when you need to communicate with the staff about a  non-critical equipment issues.  (ie. Glove have run out, one of the magnification relays is buggy) • Report problem:  This will change the green arrow to yellow.  This action is for equipment that is not performing at 100%, but is still usable. (ie. The instrument is taking too long to pump down) • Shutdown (Admin Only):  This will change the stoplight to RED.  It is for equipment that is not functional. (ie. The filament burned out.)

13. Viewing Reported Issues • Click on the instrument of interest • Select the Maintenance tab • Select the desired Comment, Problem or Shutdown message • Click Show Message

14. Don’t Forget to Log Out

15. Reservation and Billing Policies • Reservations may be no more than 4 hrs per session or day on any one instrument. • No more than 12 hours may be reserved on any one instrument at any time. • Adjustments to billed time for failure to disable an instrument will be limited to one occurrence per person. • Abuse of reservation policies will be dealt with on a case by case basis.