Requirement for users to get POD VPN access

If you need VPN access to POD, please make an appointment with the SysAdmin team by emailing cluster-admin@soe.ucsc.edu. In this email please provide

 your name
 your PI's name
 PI's approval for this access (an email from your PI will be fine) 
 what other access do you need such as an unix server account or to the OpenStack. 

Before your appointment, please make sure you have the following:

 A laptop running OS X, Windows or Ubuntu
 wireless connection to eduroam. cruznet cannot connect to the VPNs. You can find the instruction on how to setup eduroam at https://its.ucsc.edu/wireless/eduroam-config.html.

For Macs, please download and install Tunnelblick from https://tunnelblick.net/downloads.html. Select the Stable version.

For Windows, please download and install OpenVPN Client from https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html. Select openvpn-install-x.x.x-xxxx.exe

For Ubuntu, please install network-manager-openvpn by typing:

 sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

if that fails, please also install the following:

 sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome

Please do NOT worry about how to configure the software at this point. We will help you to set it up at your appointment.