eduroam setup: Technical Documentation

If you're looking for technical advice about deploying eduroam in different situations, or for advice and materials that could help you / your organisation to ensure the greatest number of your customers / users know that eduroam is available to them, please use the links below to find the appropriate information.

Welcome note / explanation

 

How to get eduroam on my laptop or mobile device

How to deploy eduroam on site / campus

How to deploy eduroam for events

How to offer eduroam support

How to deploy eduroam nationally

How to build the eduroam infrastructure

I am a student/ teacher / researcher (Users)

Exactly how to configure your laptop or other handheld device for eduroam will depend on a) which device(s) you are using and b) which equipment your school / university / college is using.
If you know that your school / university / college does provide eduroam, please ask the IT staff for support with setting it up on your laptop or other devices.
If you are not sure whether or not your institution provides eduroam, the National Roaming Operator for your country may be able to help with your enquiry. To find out more, follow the linked maps from http://www.eduroam.org/
For a list of devices that are compatible with eduroam see here: https://confluence.terena.org/display/H2eduroam/Devices+that+are+compatible+with+eduroam^{Image Removed}

       
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I am an IT manager / staff member from a university / college / school etc. (Institutions)

See 'How to deploy edurom on-site / campus' and 'How to offer eduroam support'

 

 

 

 

 

I am an IT manager / staff member from a (potential) National Roaming Operator organisation

See 'How to deploy edurom on-site / campus' and 'How to offer eduroam support'

 

 

 

 

 

End-user information
I am an IT manager / staff member from a university / college / school etc. (Institutions)	Setting up eduroam on site Support for end users
I am an IT manager / staff member from a (potential) National Roaming Operator organisation	Setting up eduroam on a national level

eduroam Operations Support Services

Access to most of the eduroam Operations Support Services is restricted to authorised National Roaming Operator (NRO) personnel (a.k.a. "federation operators") and their registered eduroam Identity Providers (IdPs) and eduroam Service Providers (SPs). Some services are available to the general public though. In the list below, the following prefixes are used to indicate access level

• OPEN - parts of the service are available to end users and the general public
• INST - parts of the service are restricted to eduroam IdPs and SPs
• FED - parts of the service are restricted to eduroam NRO personnel

Obtaining Privileged Access to eduroam Operations Support Services

List of eduroam Operations Support Service elements

eduroam database

• FED web interface
• OPEN data format and status overview
• OPEN schema verification for data set: http://monitor.eduroam.org/eduroam/xml_validation_test.php?url=http://your.url.here

eduroam infrastructure diagnostics

• OPEN eduroam monitoring overview
• FED eduroam on-demand international connectivity test

eduroam statistics

• OPEN eduroam F-Ticks International Statistics

eduroam CAT

• OPEN INST FED eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool (CAT)
• OPEN A guide to eduroam CAT for institution administrators
• OPEN A guide to eduroam CAT for federation administrators

Acknowledgements:

the eduroam logo is a registered trademark of the GÉANT Association

The technical information on these pages has been provided and updated thanks to eduroam experts from a number of organisations. Likewise, the advice and materials that have been provided to assist you in raising awareness of your eduroam service have been produced by a group of marketing and communications experts from European national research and education networking organisations (NRENs) and the pan-European organisation GÉANT. This work-in-progress is part of the GÉANT (GN4-2) project, which is funded by many NRENs and by the European Commission..