CCMR Coral Information

Introduction
Coral is being adopted to aid in the administrative management of the CCMR's experimental facilities. If you use the equipment in our facilities you will need to install Coral in order to make equipment reservations. If you already use CNF Coral, you will find that CCMR Coral is quite similar, though there are some minor differences.

Download CCMR Coral
Download CCMR 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 Troubleshooting 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.

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. To request a Coral account, see CCMR Coral Account Request.

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

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.

Getting an Account
To request a Coral account, please use our CCMR Coral Account Request page.

If you do not have a Cornell netid, you can request a CCMR Coral account by sending the following information to our office staff at: coral-admin@ccmr.cornell.edu

Name
Job title
Company name
E-mail
Field of expertise
Principal Investigator name
Billing contact name
Billing address
Billing phone
Billing fax

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 clicking the Do I have Java? link on Sun's Java website . If you have 1.6.0_14 then you will need to upgrade to a newer version.