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Additional GLP Features Available for VNMR Users:

In the context of GLP (and 21CFRpart11 compliance) it is desirable to have clear references about the user who acquired the data ("owner") and about the system which was used to generate the data ("origin", covering system type, a unique identifier, such as the host-ID, the software version, date and revision/patch level, the operating system). The VNMR user library contribution "maclib/glp" is available to registered Varian/VNMR users and has been modified to automatically create and fill two new parameters "origin" and "owner" when an acquisition is started. These parameters are defined as follows:

a) "origin":

• instrument type and frequency, e.g.:
         UNITY INOVA-500
• The (Sun) host-ID as obtained by the UNIX "hostid" command, e.g.:
         HostID 80f86b0b
  This guarantees a clear and unique identifier that ties the acquisition to a particular Sun host workstation. The instrument serial number is currently NOT available; also, there are many older instruments that don't even have a proper serial number.
• the VNMR version and revision date, e.g.:
         VNMR 6.1C 2000-08-18
• the latest VNMR patch (if applicable), e.g.:
         patched all103
• The operating system, e.g.:
         Solaris 2.6
         Solaris 7
         Solaris 8

b) "owner":

• the minimal form is the UNIX user name and the UID/GID info
• if a user has filled the GECOS fields in /etc/passwd, the real name is extracted from this (using "finger") and added to this parameter.

Examples:
 

origin:  MERCURY-300; HostID 8dc86d0f;
            VNMR 6.1C 2000-08-18 Solaris 8

owner: John Doe (vnmr1); UID/GID: 1001/101

Varian's JCAMP-DX exporting software, available from the VNMR user library in the contribution "bin/parhandler" (at the above addresses) has also been modified to use these two new parameters, if present in the parameters.

Download magical macro as text file.

For further details please contact Rolf Kyburz