Service Types - Data Center services

LNO provides a limited data archive for satellite data, orphaned data, and other data by request. Data are registered in the LTER Metacat data catalog and stored on LNO servers accessible via web and ftp.

LNO supports and maintain an LTER Network LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server to provide authentication services for web and database applications. The LDAP provides secure SSHA encrypted password access for network applications. The LDAP is maintained via personnel database forms and permissions.

LNO hosts virtual servers through the VMware Server platform and can provide virtual servers to sites requesting such services. The host system is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 Quad-core with 16Gb of memory and 1.2Tb of RAID-5 storage. Virtual servers can be almost any flavor of operating system, and each instance is backed-up on a daily basis.