GENERAL GUIDELINES

Failure to follow SEASnet Lab Policy may result in the temporary loss of your SEASnet account and/or further disciplinary action by the Engineering Dean of Students.

The SEASnet Lab Policies are in addition to the User Agreement you accepted when you first established your SEASnet account, and the campus policies documented at http://www.icompass.ucla.edu/policies.htm.

SEASnet strongly recommends all users educate themselves regarding the personal risks involved in illegal file-sharing or copyright infringement by reading the information posted at the University of California's Office of the President: http://ww w.ucop.edu/irc/policy/copyright.html

FACILITY USE POLICY

• No food or drink allowed in the lab in any type of container at any time.
• If labs are full users needing to do course work have priority over those users just browsing the internet, reading email, etc.
• If you have access to restricted software for course work that software may only be used to do assignments for that course.
• Users in the lab must need the use of the computers. Please do not use the lab to take a quick nap or study in your text book.
• Machines may not be locked for more than 15 minutes. A machine left longer than 15 minutes will be rebooted by SEASnet staff to make available for another user.
• SEASnet is not responsible for anything done to the users account in the event the user did not logout prior to leaving the lab.
• There is one reserved station in room 4404 Boelter Hall. This station is reserved for students with disabilities. This station may only be used by non-disabled students provided there are no students with disabilities waiting and all other stations are full.
• Turn off all cell phones and pagers.
• Items left in the lab are taken to HSSEAS Lost & Found in room 6426 Boelter Hall.
• Chairs are for lab use only and should not be removed from the room.
• Phone is for emergency use or to contact the SEASnet help desk (x75154).
• No bicycles allowed in the labs.
• All SEASnet labs may be under electronic surveillance.

INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION IN SEASnet LABS

SEASnet has specific policies for posting information in the labs. Currently this is an open policy whereby you are allowed to post information for engineering students without permission from SEASnet. However, we expect you to be responsible in your postings. Postings should be directly related to those items of interest to engineering students and must follow the guidelines outlined below.

• You may not distribute individual flyers to each station in the labs.
• You may leave flyers at our help desk for students to pick up.
• You may post announcements in the labs provided that you use "posting friendly" tape that doesn't pull the paint/varnish off our walls and doors and announcements are removed when they are no longer valid.
• Official engineering organizations may also request the announcement be placed on SEASnet's Message of the Day. Requests for postings of annoucements on the MOTD can be sent to help@seas.ucla.edu for review. The announcement must be brief in nature and related to official university business.

SERVER USE POLICY

Process Definitions

Resource Intensive Processes

Programs or sets of programs that are planned to run for more that a few hours and which will use large amounts of system resources, such as computer cycles, memory, or process slots.

Attended Processes

Processes attached to a terminal session that also has an interactive shell belonging to the same user, or processes running as a netshell client.

Unattended Processes

Processes running unattatached to any interactive session. This includes abandoned/lost Xsessions and/or X based processes that are consuming computer cycles.

Process Policies

• Resource intensive processes should not be run during prime time. Prime time is defined as 0800 to 1700 weekdays, except for University Holidays. We understand that sometimes it is necessary to run during prime time so we have implemented the following rules to ensure that the available resources are fairly shared. During prime time a user may run one attended resource intensive job. During non prime time a user may run one attended resource intensive job per computer to which the user has access.
• Users with more than one attended resource intensive process per computer will have all of the processes terminated on that computer. Users with multiple attended resource intensive processes running on multiple computers (if you split the load across several machines) during prime time will be warned and after four hours all of the user's processes on any SEASnet managed computer will be terminated. Unattended resource intensive processes will be terminated when they are discovered.
• Explicitly prohibited processes include, but are not limited to: IRC Bots of any kind, fileservers of any kind and computer cycle servers.
• Classes needing to run intensive processes should contact SEASnet prior to the start of the class.