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This page is about a service, offered by SURFin development at SURF (production slated for Q3 2020), that makes it easier for research collaborations to set up and manage access to (data and compute) services they need for their projects. Using our service enables collaborations to spent more time on research instead of managing infrastructure. Everybody involved benefits: researchers, providers of services for researchers and institutions. Anybody is invited to read about the service, but the service is geared towards Dutch led research projects ( .
Don't want to read the information below but want to know how this can help you? Or have questions? You can send us an email and we'll set up a call!
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Connects with eduGAIN so that research services are accessible for researchers at institutions outside the Netherlands.
Provides a mechanism (via a 'membership management service, like COmanage, Hexaa, Perun or SBS) to invite users and manage groups and attributes.
Provides a solution for people without an edu account to use services (guest providers in the Identity HUB, such as via ORCID, eIDAS, social accounts like from Microsoft and Google etc).
Provides a solution to securely access (web and) non-web services.
Wondering how a flow of inviting a user to access via SSH looks like? See the below video, but know this is just to get an idea as the environment is developing continuously (if the video doesn't start playing, try opening it full-screen via the icon in the top right corner. The cow-sound at the start of the video is related to the name of the company involved in work on COmanage, Spherical Cow Group of which the name is based on the usage of spherical cow, a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex real life phenomena):
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src | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwSgD_8NVoJcSTd4UmRqc0g1Yk0/preview |
name | How user enrollment works in COmanage |
width | 640 |
id | COmanageEnrollment |
title | COmanage enrollment |
height | 480 |
longdesc | Video showing how access to a SSH resource works via COmanage, which is part of the SCZ-stack |
Provides a solution to securely access (web and) non-web services.
A Another way of logging in is shown in a video at the bottom of PAM Module. We've also made a connection to Azure AD VM's which we show in this video.
You can also try a demo yourself.
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Interested in the components used? See Technical overview of SCZ .
Connecting Services to the SCZ environment describes how to services to the SCZ infrastructure. A list of connected services can be found at https://mdq.pilot.scz.lab.surf.nl/role/sp.html .
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