Laboratory for Media and versatile Applications — services
This is a survey on the services provided by the Laboratory for Media and versatile Applications — MEVA-Lab for short — for the Institute for Automation & industrial IT, the Computer Science department as well as for the whole Bochum University.

For providing IT services to laboratories and the Computer science department an essential mean is the

• die domain FB3-MEVA. Herewith lies the base for:
   
• print service, campus wide on some of the the "copiers" employing their pay per page facilities. The service is for all all members and students (January 2006 until September 2009),
• user accounts for all students (about 3000) having any teaching connection to the computer science department (FB3) employing their (campus unique) LDAP Id, to get access to
• Laboratory workstations (see loggin procedure)
• file service for all those users (campus wide); for students the capacity is limited, but will be enlarged on request,
• a variety of Web services, like CVS, SVN, data base systems and else (due to a University's administrations slump shamefully not visible from outside the campus. Apologies for that, and use MEVA-Lab's external services.)

That is complemented by a variety of (designedly) more internal or hidden services

• accounts for all computer science department (FB3) members giving some expanded rights,
• accounts (about 90) for our office and lab workstations, server plus for about 70 teaching room workstations in our institute,
• facility protection and management system for the institute's labs and offices (a 100% Java application by the way),
• backup for the file service,
• version control (internally) using Subversion (SVN),
• a variety of interal Web services for process and account control (see Java, Tomcat).