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SAFE 4 User Guide

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  • Managing your allocated resources
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  • Tracking your project usage
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SAFE 4 User Guide

SAFE is an online ARCHER service management system. This is new documentation for the latest version of SAFE version 4.

SAFE Guide for Individual Users

Through SAFE, individual users can request machine accounts, reset passwords, see available resources and track their usage. All users must be registered on SAFE before they can apply for their machine account.

Go to the SAFE guide for individual users

Contents

Registering, logging in, passwords

  • How to register on SAFE
  • How to login to SAFE
  • How to use 2-factor authentication to SAFE
  • How to change your personal details on SAFE
  • How to change your email address on SAFE
  • How to change your SAFE password
  • How to reset your SAFE password if lost or forgotten
  • How to request a machine account
  • How to request access to a guest budget
  • How to reset a password on your machine account
  • How can to pick up your password for the service machine
  • How to request access to a Package Group
  • How to request access to KNL on ARCHER

User Mailing Options

  • How to view user mailings
  • How to get added to, or removed from the email mailing list?

Tracking and managing available resources

  • How to check how much time and space are available
  • How to request more AUs/disk space
  • How to review your usage of the service, or the activity of the service as a whole

Tracking Publications

  • How to register a publication on SAFE
  • How to list your publications in SAFE
  • How to export your publications from SAFE

Miscellaneous

  • How to check the queries you have submitted to the helpdesk
  • How to register your approval — or your annoyance
  • How to delete your user account

SAFE Guide for Principal Investigators and Project Managers

Principal investigators (grant holders) and project managers (nominated by PIs) have overall authority over their allocated resources and can perform additional project management tasks in SAFE.

Go to the SAFE Guide for principal investigators.

Contents

Managing your allocated resources

  • What is "period allocation"?
  • How to set up project groups within the project
  • How to set up a guest budget
  • How to delete a project group
  • How to move time between budgets
  • How to allocate time to individual user
  • How to administer disk space
  • How to create a quota for a project group, or move space between quotas
  • How to set a quota for an individual user

Managing project users

  • How can project users get registered.
  • How to track user sign up requests
  • How to designate a user as a project manager
  • How to add a user to a project group
  • How to remove a user from a project group
  • How to remove a user (or users) from your project
  • How to send a mailing to all users in your project

Tracking your project usage

  • How to check the current state of your project's time and space
  • How to track what the project's users and project groups are doing
  • How to check how much space the project's users are occupying
  • How to request more resources (AUs and disk space)

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