CCMR Coral Information

CCMR Coral Information

Introduction
Coral is being adopted to aid in the management of the CCMR's experimental facilities. If you use the the CCMR facilities you will need to use Coral.

Before you can use Coral you first have to Request a CCMR User Account

Download CCMR Coral.
If you have trouble downloading Coral, see the Trouble Downloading section below.

Logging in to CCMR Coral
Cornell users will login to CCMR Coral using their Cornell netid and password. External users will login using a special guest ID that will be created for them.

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Making an Instrument Reservation

  • Select instrument in left panel
  • Select date and time in Reservations tab in right panel. Note that time is listed in 24-hour format!
  • In top menu select Reservation Actions and click Make

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Using an Instrument
When you are ready to use an instrument, record your time in Coral by:

  • Select instrument in left panel
  • To begin: in top menu select Equipment Actions and click Enable
  • When finished: in top menu select Equipment Actions and click Disable
For this you can use the computer designated for Coral use in the facility you are working in. Alternatively you can use your own computer if you prefer and if it has network access in the facility.

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User and PI Accounting Report System
To run a report of your current month's charges, click the link above and login using your Cornell netid and password (Cornell users) or Coral id and password (Non-Cornell users).

Select My Accounting for your own usage charges. Select PI Accounting or PI Accounting Detail to see all charges to your accounts (PI's and departments)

To view a report for a different month, enter the first day of the month in From Date and the first day of the following month in To Date.

To modify the sort order, click Change sort order in the left side menu and enter the column(s) you wish to sort on in the Define your own sort order: area.


Details and Troubleshooting

Trouble downloading Coral
If your browser prompts you to Open with Java(TM) Web Start Launcher then you have Sun JRE installed and can proceed with the download. If not then you will need to download Sun JRE first. After Coral is downloaded it will show a couple of security warnings (click Run) and then a Login box. If you do not get the login box, see the Unable to make secure connection section below.

Download Sun JRE
Before downloading Coral, you need to have first installed a recent version of the Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE). If your machine doesn't already have Java, you can get it from the Free Java Download link at Sun's Java website. Coral runs as a Java Web Start application. Java Web Start is part of the JRE installation.

Unable to make secure connection
If Coral fails to start with the message: Unable to make secure connection, then you most likely have Java version 1.6.0_14 installed, which does not work properly with Coral. You can check what version of Java you have by checking Sun's Do I have Java? page. If you have 1.6.0_14 then you will need to upgrade to a newer version.

Using Coral from behind a firewall
If you are behind a very restrictive firewall you may have trouble connecting to the Coral server. If this is the case, you will need to ask your firewall administrator to open ports 50000 through 50014 for you.