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Working on the servers of the ESCER Centre
Operating system
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Firewall
To protect our servers and data we have a firewall installed around all of them. To get inside this firewall you need to either:
- be connected via cable on the internet on the 6st or 7th floor of the PK
- use UQAM's VPN
- connect to one of our hoppies - see below.
Internal servers
We call them "internal" because they are inside our firewall.
If you are part of the ESCER Centre you will most likely be working To access our data you need to be on one of our "internal servers". Check out our server pool under: Serveurs de recherche
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The so called "external" servers are outside our firewall and are only used to connect to our internal servers when connecting from outside the firewall.
Outside/inside our firewall
You are inside our firewall when:
- connected via cable on the internet on the 6st or 7th floor of the PK
- using UQAM's VPN
Have a look at the graphic on the following site : Computer infrastructur of the ESCER Centre
Operating system
The operating system on our servers is Linux. If you are not familiar with Linux/UNIX have a look a the basic commands: Basic Linux/UNIX commandsOtherwise you are outside our firewall.
Connection to internal servers
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