> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Pete Biggs > Sent: den 30 november 2017 09:50 > To: centos at 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