ITC Computing Accounts

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Accounts for New Faculty, Staff, and Students

Email Accounts

Email accounts are available to all new UVa students, faculty, and staff. View your account options and request a UVa email account.

Automatically-Provisioned Accounts

  • Students: To learn more about your automatically-created computing accounts (Home Directory and Eservices), see the student accounts page.
  • Faculty and Staff: To learn more about your automatically-created computing accounts (Home Directory and Eservices), see the faculty and staff accounts page.

Accounts for Other ITC-Supported Services

Account Description for Students, Faculty, & Staff?

Individual Accounts for Central Services
Home Directory (blue.unix) Web pages, file storage yes—automatically provisioned
UVaCollab Course home pages, online collaborations, file storage. No account needed - simply log into UVaCollab site with your NetBadge ID and password. yes—automatically provisioned
Instructional Toolkit Course home pages yes—create
Eservices Network printing, UVa Exchange Service, computing lab and library workstation access, Premium Server clients, administrative operations. yes—automatically provisioned

Access to Restricted Resources from off-Grounds
UVaAnywhere & UVaAnywhere-Lite Remote access to Software Central downloads, protected library resources. No account required, but must access using personal digital certificate. yes—download certificate
Proxy Server Remote access to Software Central downloads, protected library resources yes—create

Administrative Sites
VPN for Mainframe Only (Mercury) (Also Information Warehouse users without Oracle responsibilities) Log in to the Cisco VPN client prior to making connections to mercury. If you also have Oracle access use the VPN for Oracle/Mainframe link below Faculty/Staff only—create
VPN for Mainframe/Oracle (Mercury & Integrated System) (Also Information Warehouse users with Oracle responsibilities) Log in to the Cisco VPN client prior to making connections to the Integrated System or Mercury. If you do not have Integrated System access use the Mainframe only section above. Faculty/Staff only—create

Research Computing Resources
Research Computing Systems Computation/memory intensive research-related programs (HPC clusters) yes (undergrads require faculty sponsor)—create

Accounts for Hosting Websites/Web Applications
Home Directory (blue.unix) Personal websites yes—create
Instructional Toolkit Class sites yes—create
Faculty Web server Faculty sites Only faculty and grad students with faculty sponsor—create
Student Council Web server Student organization (CIO) sites Students only—create
MySQL server Web-enabled database hosting yes—create
www.web.virginia.edu Hosting of ASP/.NET/Cold Fusion Web applications and sites using Microsoft server technologies yes—create

Guest Access

For guest access to UVa systems, please contact the Accounts Office.

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