Symplicity
Introduction
NACELink and JAMs are hosted services provided by Symplicity Corporation. Local accounts are created and Shibboleth is used for authentication. Application support is provided by the vendor.
NACElink is a service offered by the Career Office to provide job search, interview tracking, career day management services. Brad Kmoch and Mike Hendel are the career office contact for the service.
JAMs is a judicial review management software used by the Dean of Students office, security, housing, etc. It's used to track student conduct issues. Julie Thornton in the Dean of Students office is the primary contact for this service.
NACElink (the Tunnel)
Access
The Tunnel is available to all faculty, staff, undergraduates, and alumni via https://shibboleth-carleton.symplicity.com/sso/
Provisioning
This is a manual process. The script /usr/local/sysnet/sbin/nace_export.bash on the server idmprod.its.carleton.edu can be run to produce import files for undergraduates, facstaff, and alumni. We run the script and give the files to Brad Kmoch, who has admin rights in NACElink to perform this import.
As of June 2012, the Career Center would like an expanded import. Here is a draft of what those import attributes would be:
Attribute |
Definition |
|---|---|
Person ID |
Advance ID |
Username |
|
First Name |
Preferred first name/directory first name |
Last Name |
Preferred last name/directory last name |
Local email address for student, faculty, staff; external email address for alumni |
|
Magstripe ID |
Current OneCard magstripe ID (used by students to identify themselves in the Career Center |
Major |
Pipe-separated list of Academic subject areas of declared major, or "Undeclared" for undeclared undergraduates |
Graduation date |
June 15 of cohort year, e.g. 06/15/2012 |
Class year |
Freshman (first-year?), Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Alum |
Applicant type |
Current Student, Alum, Faculty, Staff, based on primary affiliation |
Is Faculty |
Y/N |
Is Staff |
Y/N |
Work Authorization |
Based on Visa type. Get vocabulary from the NACElink application 1 |
Campus Address |
Dorm information. What do we display for Northfield Option? |
Permanent Address |
Student permanent address as defined in Colleague |
Cell Phone |
(leaving as self-asserted) |
Is Athlete |
Based on conversations with Dean of Students |
Is Pre-Law |
Need to determine if this should be self-asserted or can be pulled from someplace else |
Is Pre-Med |
Need to determine if this should be self-asserted or can be pulled from someplace else |
(1) Need to determine where this information can be sourced; presumably from Colleague.
JAMS (Advocate)
Access
JAMS is available at http://go.carleton.edu/jams . Dave Flynn has Administrator rights.
Provisioning
A series of scripts on IDMProd (/usr/local/sysnet/jams/update_jams.sh and /usr/local/sysnet/jams/transferfiles.sh, run -manually-) updates the following
- students accounts
- student photos
- a list of campus buildings
These scripts take three inputs:
- JAMS-students.txt, from Avanti/Colleague data; contains student information, including course enrollment and address information
- reason_buildings.txt, from Chicago; contains information about buildings and rooms, mostly to associate courses with teaching location
- a slapcat dump in LDIF format of our LDAP tree, used to capture student photographs for the Advocate system
And produce three outputs:
- buildings.tab: a tab-delimited list of building/room locations
- pictures.zip: a zipped file containing raw .jpg photos, named by advance ID, for all Carleton students in the feed
- students.tab: a tab-delimited file of student information, with a prepended header naming each field
Which are then SCPd (as the user 'jams' via pubkey auth, see idmprod:/home/jams/.ssh/) to the following address at Symplicity via /usr/local/sysnet/jams/transferfiles.sh:
- carleton-jams.symplicity.com
Staff accounts must be created manually. JAMS uses advanceids passed by Shibboleth as the primary key, so when creating an account use that in the username field. 
Support
JAMS Support is provided by the vendor. New support cases are opened by emailing the following address: