-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Pete Biggs Sent: den 30 november 2017 09:50 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS
No, it's Varian/Agilent. A big player in lab instruments.
Funny thing, just googled them and apparently they've opensoured the
culprit
software, and according to the below link, it's not locked to a
particular
point release anymore!
http://openvnmrj.org/Downloading/
It does however still require the original software - which _is_ locked
to a
particular point release. Dammit', so close!
Yes, our spectrometers that run VNMRJ are not allowed directly on the network. They are tucked away safely behind a NAT'd firewall with very few ports open and access is only allowed by proxy ssh from a few IP addresses (for some reason the users want to retrieve their data from it!). The extra cost of a firewall is nothing compared to the cost of the instrument.
Same setup here. It's the SOP for these systems I guess. We were even able to find that specific consumer grade Zyxel router!
We solved the user access to the spectra with a script that pulled in the data-folders from the instrument boxes via rsync to a Processing computer, to which they could connect with eg WinSCP, after first having plugged a hole in the firewall/router.
For some reason the users don't like going down three or four stairs to the basement to pick up the spectra on a usb-stick, then dumping it to their own computers and do a more detailed processing.
-- //Sorin