Sponsors - managing your group¶
Warning
All operations relative to managing accounts and resources in your group (such as approving new users, renew expired accounts etc.) are performed on System Identity Manager, SIM, you will NOT be notified by email messages when a new user is requesting your sponsorship or access to your resources, you will therefore need to periodically visit your account on SIM.
Questions or comments? Visit our support online help desk at: https://support.idre.ucla.edu.
Sponsor responsibilities¶
As a Hoffman2 Cluster sponsor you are expected to manage the authorization to use the cluster of the various user accounts you have sponsored (and which constitute your Hoffman2 group).
A Hoffman2 Cluster sponsor is required to:
Approve or deny new user requests on SIM
Approve or deny user renewals on SIM
Supervise your sponsored users use of Hoffman2 Cluster computational resources
Keep your email address current on your SIM account profile
Respond promptly to messages from the Hoffman2 Cluster administrators (e.g., in case of suspected unauthorized access)
Communicate to the Hoffman2 Cluster administrators if you no longer wish or qualify to be a sponsor
Manage your group and your resources on SIM (you have the option of assign a delegate to carry on account related functions)
Update the sponsorship SIM page if you no longer wish to sponsor a particular person’s account
Update us if a sponsored user is no longer eligible (e.g., if a student graduates and leaves UCLA)
Tip
If you have any account related problems or questions, contact us at: accounts@idre.ucla.edu (please set your email client to accept or whitelist email from accounts@idre.ucla.edu).
Questions or comments? Visit our support online help desk at: https://support.idre.ucla.edu.
Managing your users¶
Warning
You will NOT be notified by email messages when a user is requesting your sponsorship or access to your resources, you will therefore need to periodically visit your account on SIM.
Appointing a delegate¶
You can Appoint a delegate to approve and renew cluster accounts on your behalf by navigating to the Resources page of SIM
New user¶
You and any appointed delegate can approve or deny new account requests by vising SIM. SIM does not send notifications, accordingly you may want to check SIM for new account requests.
User renewal¶
Each year on, or near the date of the original account application, user accounts need to be renewed to ensure continuation of services. You and any delegate can check on SIM the status of user renewals.
Expired user¶
If an account is not renewed, it expires. When an account has expired, the Accounts Administrator may contact you about the disposition of the account and its files. If you agree, the account will be disabled and the user will no longer be able to login or use Hoffman2 Cluster services.
Note
Respond to inquires regarding expired accounts to prevent user termination and/or manage user data.
Deleted user¶
An account which has been disabled for six months will be deleted. Both the account and all $HOME and $SCRATCH files owned by that account will be removed from the system. Ownership of the user directory in purchased storage will be reassigned to you or your delegate.
Note
Be aware that disabled accounts will be deleted after six months.
Questions or comments? Visit our support online help desk at: https://support.idre.ucla.edu.