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Giovanni at 16:58, 26 June 2007

2007-06-26T16:58:56Z

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-	A number of ~~software~~ programs ~~run~~ on ~~central computers~~ and are used to build and integrate the IT services. They are installed, configured and ~~constantly~~ updated to guarantee a reliable service to the final user.	+	A number of programs are installed on the various servers and are used to build and integrate the IT services. They are installed, configured and regularly updated to guarantee a reliable service to the final user.

	Here follows a short description of them:		Here follows a short description of them:
-	;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It ~~provides~~ a wide range of ~~application services~~, used for ~~researcher~~ activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.	+	;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It is used to support a wide range of web applications, used for research activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.
	;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.		;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.
	;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through RRDTools graphic library.		;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through RRDTools graphic library.

Gianluca at 12:27, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T12:27:33Z

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	;SpamAssassin antispam: SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox.		;SpamAssassin antispam: SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox.
	;VNC: Provides access to a remote graphical linux desktop, running the VNC server and requires a VNC client to connect and display the server desktop; it is used to deploy the VLS service available to ceinge users to run the scientific applications that requires a Unix OS as platform.		;VNC: Provides access to a remote graphical linux desktop, running the VNC server and requires a VNC client to connect and display the server desktop; it is used to deploy the VLS service available to ceinge users to run the scientific applications that requires a Unix OS as platform.
-	;Webmin: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), ~~you can~~ setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and ~~so on~~. Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.	+	;Webmin: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), it is possible setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and almost all management task of a computer. Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.
	{{footer itservices\|next=Network}}		{{footer itservices\|next=Network}}

Gianluca at 11:03, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T11:03:42Z

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	;IMP Webmail: A web interface to access the mail server, using the IMAP protocol, that allows the users to have instant access to its mailbox without any mail client configuration.		;IMP Webmail: A web interface to access the mail server, using the IMAP protocol, that allows the users to have instant access to its mailbox without any mail client configuration.
	;LDAP user management: It is a directory service, providing accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access requiring the ceinge users to own a unique username and password. Its distributed architecture in the form of one master replicated to multiple slaves, guarantee performances and reliability of the service.		;LDAP user management: It is a directory service, providing accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access requiring the ceinge users to own a unique username and password. Its distributed architecture in the form of one master replicated to multiple slaves, guarantee performances and reliability of the service.
		+	;MySQL DB server: It is an opensource relational DB server reaching fast performances, high reliability and good usability to manage a high volume of data. It is also very popular for its frequent use in applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python).
		+	;PostgreSQL DB server: It is a relational DB server providing reliability, data integrity and correctness and integrating full support for ACID rules, for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages).
	;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple computers with the same operating system and the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system is shared from a central server between the clients. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the server and its own configuration from its (remote) specific snapshot.		;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple computers with the same operating system and the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system is shared from a central server between the clients. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the server and its own configuration from its (remote) specific snapshot.
	;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data, often used as support software from other software packages.		;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data, often used as support software from other software packages.

Gianluca at 10:40, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T10:40:46Z

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	;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.		;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.
	;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through RRDTools graphic library.		;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through RRDTools graphic library.
-	;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable ~~multi-threaded daemon, a command line~~ scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updating via Internet.	+	;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable antivirus scanner and an advanced tool for automatic virus database updating via Internet, allowing constant protection against new viruses.
-	;~~Cluster scheduling~~: ~~PHP system~~ to ~~schedule interactive processes on distributed~~ computing ~~machines; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution~~.	+	;Condor: It is used in clustered computers, where different and etherogeneous computing nodes collaborate by network to resolve high performance computing tasks, requiring long execution time. The goal of the Condor® Project is to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources.
-	~~;Condor:~~ The goal of the Condor® Project is to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources.	+
	;DHCP (Automatic IP assignment): This service provides IP addresses for users that have registered their own laptop and want access the network. There are several private networks designed for this purpose, associated to different areas of the institute.		;DHCP (Automatic IP assignment): This service provides IP addresses for users that have registered their own laptop and want access the network. There are several private networks designed for this purpose, associated to different areas of the institute.
	;Fileserver: A central disk space used by users to		;Fileserver: A central disk space used by users to
	:*store		:*store
	:*share files by network		:*share files by network
-	:the access is guaranteed using different standard protocols (afp, ftp, windows file sharing).	+	:the access is guaranteed using different standard protocols:
-	;LDAP user management: ~~Provides~~ accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access.	+	:*afp (netatalk)
-	;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple ~~systems~~ with the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system~~, which can be read-only,~~ is shared from a central server between the clients ~~and the individual clients have their own directories on the central server for the rest of the operating system, which must be read/write~~. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the ~~NFS~~ server ~~as read-only~~ and ~~another directory as read-write. Each client has~~ its own ~~read-write directory so that one client can not affect the others~~.	+	:*ftp (proftp)
-	~~<!-- == RRDTools == -->~~	+	:*windows file sharing (samba).
-	;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data.	+	;FJS (Fast Job Scheduling system): It is a software to interactively schedule computing power on a distributed computer; it is written in a high level programming language (PHP) and is based on a relation database server (mysql) to store status information of the computing nodes; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution.
		+	;IMP Webmail: A web interface to access the mail server, using the IMAP protocol, that allows the users to have instant access to its mailbox without any mail client configuration.
		+	;LDAP user management: It is a directory service, providing accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access requiring the ceinge users to own a unique username and password. Its distributed architecture in the form of one master replicated to multiple slaves, guarantee performances and reliability of the service.
		+	;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple computers with the same operating system and the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system is shared from a central server between the clients. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the server and its own configuration from its (remote) specific snapshot.
		+	;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data, often used as support software from other software packages.
	;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).		;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).
-	;Sendmail mailserver: Provide a stable and efficient way to deliver emails for registered users.	+	;Sendmail mailserver: Provide a stable and efficient way to send outgoing emails and to deliver emails to local mailboxes for registered users; its capabilities to load external software as plugin, allows a certain flexibility to extend the sendmail functionalities, like antivirus server, online blacklist checker, antispam system and so on.
-	;SpamAssassin antispam:	+	;SpamAssassin antispam: SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox.
-	~~;Users mailbox management: The management of mailboxes implies the control of the space used by the mail service for each user; this control provides~~ a ~~way to store old~~ mail on ~~the fileserver for each user in his personal home~~.	+	;VNC: Provides access to a remote graphical linux desktop, running the VNC server and requires a VNC client to connect and display the server desktop; it is used to deploy the VLS service available to ceinge users to run the scientific applications that requires a Unix OS as platform.
-	;~~VLS Virtual Linux Station~~: Provides access to a remote linux desktop; it is ~~useful~~ to run scientific applications that requires a Unix OS as platform.	+
-	~~;Webmail: A web interface to access the mail server~~.	+
	;Webmin: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on. Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.		;Webmin: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on. Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.
	{{footer itservices\|next=Network}}		{{footer itservices\|next=Network}}

Gianluca at 09:24, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T09:24:54Z

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	;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.		;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.
	;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.		;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.
-	;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through ~~[[#~~RRDTools~~\|RRDTools]]~~.	+	;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through RRDTools graphic library.
	;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updating via Internet.		;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updating via Internet.
	;Cluster scheduling: PHP system to schedule interactive processes on distributed computing machines; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution.		;Cluster scheduling: PHP system to schedule interactive processes on distributed computing machines; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution.

Gianluca at 09:23, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T09:23:54Z

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	;LDAP user management: Provides accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access.		;LDAP user management: Provides accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access.
	;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple systems with the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system, which can be read-only, is shared from a central server between the clients and the individual clients have their own directories on the central server for the rest of the operating system, which must be read/write. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the NFS server as read-only and another directory as read-write. Each client has its own read-write directory so that one client can not affect the others.		;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple systems with the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system, which can be read-only, is shared from a central server between the clients and the individual clients have their own directories on the central server for the rest of the operating system, which must be read/write. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the NFS server as read-only and another directory as read-write. Each client has its own read-write directory so that one client can not affect the others.
-	<!-- = RRDTools = -->	+	<!-- == RRDTools == -->
	;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data.		;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data.
	;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).		;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).

Gianluca at 09:05, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T09:05:05Z

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	;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.		;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.
	;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.		;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.
-	;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through [[RRDTools]].	+	;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through [[#RRDTools\|RRDTools]].
	;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updating via Internet.		;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updating via Internet.
	;Cluster scheduling: PHP system to schedule interactive processes on distributed computing machines; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution.		;Cluster scheduling: PHP system to schedule interactive processes on distributed computing machines; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution.
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	;LDAP user management: Provides accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access.		;LDAP user management: Provides accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access.
	;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple systems with the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system, which can be read-only, is shared from a central server between the clients and the individual clients have their own directories on the central server for the rest of the operating system, which must be read/write. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the NFS server as read-only and another directory as read-write. Each client has its own read-write directory so that one client can not affect the others.		;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple systems with the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system, which can be read-only, is shared from a central server between the clients and the individual clients have their own directories on the central server for the rest of the operating system, which must be read/write. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the NFS server as read-only and another directory as read-write. Each client has its own read-write directory so that one client can not affect the others.
		+	<!-- = RRDTools = -->
	;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data.		;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data.
	;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).		;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).

Gianluca at 08:29, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T08:29:24Z

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	;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.		;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.
	;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.		;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.
		+	;BigSister: Big Sister is an alternative to the big brother software as system and network monitor and provides improved characteristics, like graphical statistics of the history, through [[RRDTools]].
	;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updating via Internet.		;ClamAV antivirus: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a ﬂexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updating via Internet.
	;Cluster scheduling: PHP system to schedule interactive processes on distributed computing machines; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution.		;Cluster scheduling: PHP system to schedule interactive processes on distributed computing machines; it also provides a web interface to monitor the load distribution.
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	;LDAP user management: Provides accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access.		;LDAP user management: Provides accounting information; it is used for authentication from all the central services with restricted access.
	;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple systems with the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system, which can be read-only, is shared from a central server between the clients and the individual clients have their own directories on the central server for the rest of the operating system, which must be read/write. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the NFS server as read-only and another directory as read-write. Each client has its own read-write directory so that one client can not affect the others.		;Red Hat Diskless Environment: Some networks require multiple systems with the same configuration. They also require that these systems be easy to reboot, upgrade, and manage. One solution is to use a diskless environment in which most of the operating system, which can be read-only, is shared from a central server between the clients and the individual clients have their own directories on the central server for the rest of the operating system, which must be read/write. Each time the client boots, it mounts most of the OS from the NFS server as read-only and another directory as read-write. Each client has its own read-write directory so that one client can not affect the others.
		+	;RRDTools: A graphic library to display statistic data.
	;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).		;Rsync: Copies files between machines, using different network protocols as transport, such as secure shell (ssh).
	;Sendmail mailserver: Provide a stable and efficient way to deliver emails for registered users.		;Sendmail mailserver: Provide a stable and efficient way to deliver emails for registered users.

Gianluca at 08:16, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T08:16:32Z

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-	A number of ~~softwares~~ run on central computers and are used to build and integrate the IT services. ~~These softwares~~ are installed, configured and constantly updated to guarantee a reliable service to the final user.	+	A number of software programs run on central computers and are used to build and integrate the IT services. They are installed, configured and constantly updated to guarantee a reliable service to the final user.
		+
	Here follows a short description of them:		Here follows a short description of them:
	;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.		;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.

Gianluca at 08:14, 20 June 2007

2007-06-20T08:14:10Z

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-	~~Il software elencato di seguito, e’ in massima parte utilizzato per la realizzazione dei servizi elencati, e non e’ direttamente utilizzato dagli utenti~~, ~~se non nella misura in cui questi utilizzano i vari servizi descritti~~. ~~Sono attualmente installati e gestiti i seguenti pacchetti~~:	+	A number of softwares run on central computers and are used to build and integrate the IT services. These softwares are installed, configured and constantly updated to guarantee a reliable service to the final user.
		+	Here follows a short description of them:
	;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.		;Apache WebServer: It is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. It provides a wide range of application services, used for researcher activities and delivery of bioinformatics applications.
	;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.		;BigBrother: Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. When problems are detected, the system manager is immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.