Contents
Accounts Web Apps
This page attempts to document the web app (which needs a real name) which allows users to query and sometimes manage their web accounts. These may be found at:
For admin web accounts - https://www.seattlecentral.edu/accounts
For student web accounts - https://edison.seattlecentral.edu/accounts
Admin
Features
- Authenticates against sccd exchange server. If you have an exchange account, you can use the accounts app.
- Shows disk usage and disk quotas
Allows user to increase disk quotas up to 200MB.
- Shows data for users with multiple web accounts, such as department accounts.
Advanced Features
These features are only available to IT Services employees who have been given special access by the administrator.
- check the status of anyone's quotas
change anyone's quota up to 200MB.
- create faculty web accounts
Using the Accounts App
Logging In
Go to https://www.seattlecentral.edu/accounts and you should see a username and a password field. The username you want to enter is your SCCD exchange email address without the '@sccd.ctc.edu' part. For example, if my email address is jdoe@sccd.ctc.edu, my username would be jdoe. Your password is the same password you use when you sign on to outlook. If you change your password for outlook, you need to use the new password when accessing the accounts app.
How Quotas Work
In order to prevent one user from taking up all the space on our web server, we use disk quotas to limit each user to a specific amount of space. Everyone gets 100MB of space to begin with, and we increase quotas on request as space allows.
If you are attempting to upload content to the web server and your upload fails, quotas are often to blame. You might end up with a partially completed upload or your entire upload may fail if you attempt to upload too much content. Unfortunately, I don't know any way to make Dreamweaver, FileZilla or other uploading software tell you that the upload failure was quota related.
Checking Your Quota
Once you log in, you should immediately see your disk quota information. If you are the primary editor of multiple accounts, if for instance, you maintain a department web page, you should see all your accounts. If you are co-editor of a shared account, you will not see the quota information for that account. (If you would like that feature, or any other feature, please make a NEED request. If there is significant interest, we can probably make it happen.)
Understanding Your Quota
You will see your quota displayed in a table like this:
User |
Limit |
Used |
Remaining |
Used % |
Remaining % |
jdoe |
100 Mb |
50 Mb |
50 Mb |
50% |
50% |
The Limit is your quota. You should be able to upload exactly that much content. The Used and Remaining are approximate values showing how much space you have used and how much space you have remaining to use. The Used % and Remaining % are the same thing but expressed as a percentage rather than units of data.
If you have had trouble uploading files, and your Remaining value is roughly the size of the content you are attempting to upload, or the content is larger, you know you have a quota problem. If you're unsure of the size of your content but the Remaining % is small, you probably have a quota problem.
If you have any doubt, you can either increase your quota or ask NEED for help.
Changing Your Quota
If your quota is between 100MB and 200MB you should see a text field and submit button just to the right of it. In the text field you can enter any value between 100MB and 200MB and hit the submit button and change your quota to that value.
If your quota is 200MB or higher, you will not see the text field and submit button. You can still request a change in your quota from NEED though. We ask that users attempt to make space by deleting unnecessary items, but in many cases you simply will need more room. If you need more room, please contact NEED.
Student
Features
- Authenticates against student mac ldap server: if you have a student account, you can use the accounts app.
- Show disk usage and disk quotas
Advanced Features
These features are only available to IT Services employees who have been given special access by the administrator.
- Show the disk usage for any student account
- Check student account status (enrolment, fees, etc...)