This facility is supported and funded by the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program, Division of Research Infrastructure, National Center for Research Resources, and the National Institutes of Health, 

Director Dr. Lloyd Williams Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Office: 826B in the Hunter North Building Phone: (212) 650 3872 Fax: (212) 650 3565	Manager Raul Morales Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Office: 932 in the Hunter North Building Phone: (212) 772-5029 Fax: (212) 650 3565
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Description of the Facility
The network facility was establish in the 1990 to provide an enhanced electronic infrastructure, and trained staff, to the researchers of the gene center. The facility is spread over 4 floors of the North building of Hunter College. Essentially each floor is a subnet of the network with an additional subnet to host wireless clients. Data centers equipped with rack mounted servers are located on the 9th and 3rd floors. Additional servers are located in the Bio-imaging facility on the 8th floor to provide domain services and data storage to that subnet.  

Instruments
The network of servers that provides the Active Directory domain (bio.hunter.cuny.edu) has been upgraded to at least Windows Server 2003 R2, and the majority of the domain controllers are now 64 bit machines.Currently there are  more than 14 servers in an MS Windows 2003 Active Directory Forest.

Services available to users

• E-mail Services, https://GeneMX.hunter.cuny.edu. Support for Web, intranet, off-site, and cell phone access to E-mail.
• Footprints Server: Online Help-Desk for network assistance, http://footprints.hunter.cuny.edu
• Biology Web-Server: host the departmental web-site, http://biology.hunter.cuny.edu
• Single Network Logon and authenticated access through Active directory
• Project/SharePoint Server:  for data collaboration among staff of the Network and the Gene Center, including submition and record keeping of task, meetings, announcements, https://interoffice.hunter.cuny.edu/genecenter;  user authentication is required to access this site.
  
• Storage Server:  a recently acquire server with over 4Terra Byte of drive space available to reseachers for data storage and for backing the most important server in the Center, e.g. Email Server, Footprints server,
  
• Access to Bio-Wlan wireless network
• Monitoring software to asset use of equipment for charge back purposes.
• Certificates through department Certificate Authority
• Scientific programs, Vector NTi MacVector EndNote
• Just Garcia Hill Web-Server: virtual site for minority researchers
• Technical Support, The two  network administrators, and the voluntary help of more knowledgeable staff integrate the technical support team. All service calls for technical support are assigned to any of the above-mentioned technicians who take care of the problem; the help of other technician is also provided if needed.
• Data Storage via departmental file servers and SharePoint services
  

Rules of Operation

• All use of the Gene Center computer Nework should be  for purposes related to the University's mission of education, research, and public service. Members of the Gene Center  should use computing resources only for purposes related to their studies, their instruction, the discharge of their duties as employees, their official business with the University, and their other University sanctioned activities.
• The computer user should be aware of computer viruses and other destructive computer programs, and take steps to avoid being either their victim or propagator. particularly all systems should be up today with patches and Anti-Virus protection.
• Illegal unlicenced software (warez), games, downloading of music (Limewire), and access of inappropriate material over the Internet is prohibited. In general  any violation of copyrights and software license agreements is prohibited.
• Computer and/or network access accounts are assigned to individual users for their exclusive use and should not be shared with others.
  In general, information stored on Gene Center computers is considered confidential, whether protected by the computer system or not, unless the owner intentionally makes that information available to other groups or individuals.

Services Not Available

• Lending out software for home or private use
• Placing orders for computer equipment for network users.
• Training for basic business applications. (i.e. Word Perfect, MS Excel, MS Word, etc.)
• Maintaining your PC file system, i.e. delete your old files,and move your files around to organize your hard drive.
• Installing personal programs (Games, Quicken etc.)

Request for Technical Services

• All requests for Technical services should be submitted through the Online Help-Desk. This Help-Desk can be accesses by visiting the following URL:http://footprints.hunter.cuny.edu

Service Schedules and Required forms

• To request technical services from the netwok facility staff, please visit the following link: http://footprints.hunter.cuny.edu