Resource & Links
CIS Web Site
The CIS web site can be found at http://cis.tamu.edu.
What Every System Administrator Should Know
CIS web site with various resources for campus IT professionals. http://admins.tamu.edu
Help Desk Central
The TAMU Computing & Information Services help desk is at http://hdc.tamu.edu. They can be reached by phone at 845-8300.
CIS Major Problem Site
Major problem computing events can be found at http://problem.tamu.edu.
CIS Enhancement Site
Recent and upcoming enhancements can be found at http://enhancement.tamu.edu.
CIS Networking Group Web Sites
The CIS Network Group is responsible for the campus computer network backbone and LAN's. They have several sites that provide useful information. They are:
| http://security.tamu.edu | security for campus network |
| https://scan.tamu.edu/campus | request vulnerability scan against hosts you own |
| https://firewall.tamu.edu | firewall settings for hosts you own |
Network Information Manager (NIM)
All IP addresses at TAMU are maintained using Network Information Manager (NIM). To access NIM, telnet to nim.tamu.edu. You will be asked for a logon-id and password. You should use the logon ID and password that is used to access Neo. After you login, you will be presented with menus and screens which will let you create and modify your host entries. The changes in the NIM database take effect in DNS typically within 24 hours. Additional information can be found here.
NEO
All NetID adddresses (user@tamu.edu) are managed through NEO.
.NET User's Group
User group for .NET developers in the TAMU/TAMUS community. http://dotnet.tamu.edu
Campus Listserv
The campus listserv is listserv.tamu.edu.
| Lists at listserv.tamu.edu | |
| tamu-net | Announcement list for notifying users of the
Texas A&M University campus network of upcoming changes/events and to
provide other useful information.
tamu-net is *not* a discussion list; it is used as an announcement list only. It should be a relatively low volume/high content list. Subscribe by sending email to "Majordomo@net.tamu.edu" and in the BODY put "unsubscribe tamu-net emailaddress" (without the quotes). Messages are also available via the Web at http://net.tamu.edu/tamunet/announce |
| am-compadmin | Discussion list for computer administrators
at TAMU. Subscribe by sending email to "listserv@listserv.tamu.edu" and in the BODY put "SUBSCRIBE am-compadmin firstname lastname" (without the quotes). |
| am-windows | Discussion list for Windows administrators
at TAMU. Subscribe by sending email to "listserv@listserv.tamu.edu" and in the BODY put "SUBSCRIBE am-windows firstname lastname" (without the quotes). |
| am-exchange | Discussion list for MS Exchange
administrators at TAMU. Subscribe by sending email to "listserv@listserv.tamu.edu" and in the BODY put "SUBSCRIBE am-exchange firstname lastname" (without the quotes). |
Higher Education Listserv
A listserv for Windows 2000 in higher education can be subscribed to by sending a message to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu. In the BODY put "subscribe windows-hied".