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Determining which DNS server to use for your RONIN Isolate

Since RONIN Isolate operates via internal IP addresses only, a custom DNS server will need to be set within your workspace in order for you to be able to connect to your RONIN Isolate machines. This blog post teaches you how.

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Creating Users a WorkSpace for RONIN Isolate

RONIN Isolate has been designed to only be able to be accessed via a secure enclave of machines called WorkSpaces. In this blog post we describe the process of creating WorkSpaces for RONIN Isolate users.

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Viewing RONIN Log Activity With Splunk: Part 1

A universal requirement for compliance is that logs be kept to track certain activities and data access. In this blog post we describe how to use Splunk to examine audit trail logs from RONIN Core.

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Preparing a Customized Windows Environment for Sharing

Want to share your custom Windows environment with other users but require them to set their own Administrator password? Find out how in this blog post!

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Automating RONIN Cost Reports with AWS Cost Explorer

What happens when RONIN users and administrators want to keep a closer watchful eye on where the money is going?

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Automating Little Things With Lambda

When you need to automate a little thing in RONIN, look towards AWS Lambda.

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Virtual Classrooms in RONIN

The creation of virtual classrooms in the cloud with RONIN means students are no longer confined to the physical hardware available at their institution, and professors have a simple way of ensuring all students have access to the same environment to complete their coursework.

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Project Pause and Auto Pause

RONIN does a lot of things to help you prevent overspend, such as Smart Schedule and Budget Management, but we at RONIN have been working hard to help you have complete peace of mind that you won’t experience financial disaster. Introducing Project Auto Pause!

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Supporting Researchers on the Cloud

It's obvious, isn't it? The purpose of research computing support is to enable researchers to conduct more research faster, to make new discoveries, to publish more influential papers, obtain more grant funding, and train the next generation. But in practice...

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Connecting Your On-Premises Network to Your RONIN AWS Cloud Account

There are a number of reasons why you might want to connect to AWS from your on-premises network infrastructure, and a number of ways to do so. This blog post is a helpful starting point to determine which solution might work best for you.

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Prepare AWS SSO to Connect to RONIN

This article will guide you through the steps to create RONIN as an application in AWS SSO to prepare to have it connected to your RONIN login. We will assume you have AWS SSO set up on an AWS account already and a RONIN deployed. In the AWS console go

Closing a Project in RONIN

Here's a quick step by step guide to ensure there are no resources left in your RONIN project and close down a project once it is no longer needed.

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AWS Best Practices when using RONIN

We recommend all of our customers use the AWS Well Architected Tool to ensure when using RONIN that they adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Five Pillars Framework.

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Instructions for Your Detailed Project Billing Report

To make life easy, we’ve created a simple step by step guide to help you generate one of the most useful reports in your AWS console - your own RONIN Project ID (RPID) report.

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Cloud Credit Billing

This solution enables our customers to pre-purchase cloud and manage it via RONIN. This aims to simplify the procurement process of cloud consumption and align with the planning and existing procurement model of your organisation.

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Initial Import for RONIN Secure Stream

As part of the initial set up of RONIN Secure Stream, we can import your existing licence servers. We just need to know the IP address and port that the licence server is listening on.

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Access for the Team to Install RONIN

RONIN is installed inside an AWS account. The customer is the owner of that account. We have a few different methods of creating accounts and sometimes we might need you to give us access. When this is required it is done via a role.

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Enabling Cost Allocation Tags for Your New RONIN Account

To make sure all the resources that RONIN orchestrates for you are tracked correctly against the billing of the AWS account, we need the root owner of the account to enable the cost allocation tags in the AWS account.

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Permissions

An overview on the permission structure for Cognito and RONIN.

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Setting up Your Organisation's Package Catalogue with RONIN

This article shows how RONIN can be used to provide an organisational service catalog, using our Packaging and Administration tools

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Creating New Users

Now you have your shiny new RONIN you need to fill it up with users.

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Login to RONIN - Two-Factor Authentication Explained

RONIN just got a whole lot more secure! Introducing Two Factor Authentication!

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Searching for Resources and Projects in RONIN

On the search results page, you will see everything that you have access to. Start typing in one of the search bars to narrow your results, or look for a particular Project, Machine, Storage or Package

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Admin Budget Management

First of all, RONIN has no cheat codes :( However, it does have an Admin permissions group! That means you'll be able to monitor every project within your organisation!

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Adding Users to Projects in RONIN

Once you have created your project in RONIN, you might want to add in some other people to work with you. Lets get started!

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