I agree with Nick, forcing students off of the network to send them an
announcement would be counterproductive; it could potentially create a
bigger disaster in an emergency.  I really hope this won't be the only
option if an option at all!

Make it $0.04,

Vu

-----Original Message-----
From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Pistentis
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:28 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CCA agent announcement funcionality

I see the value here (using CCA was discussed as a method of 
distributing alerts early on in our implementation), but I have to 
disagree with the idea of altering their role and forcing them to 
re-authenticate. In the event of a crisis, there's no guarantee that 
standard communications media like landline/cell phones will be 
available, so deliberately disrupting network access to post an alert 
could be counterproductive as users would likely have to re-authenticate

in order to send an email/IM to friends or family.

/my $0.02,

Nick
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George Washington University
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Quast, Robert (InfoTechServ) wrote:
> Damnit all that and I spelled functionality wrong
> 
>  
> 
> *From:* Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Lavner, Bob
(IT)
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:44 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: [CLEANACCESS] CCA agent announcement funcionality
> 
>  
> 
> Great idea Rob!!!
> 
>  
> 
> Bob Lavner
> 
> Network/Server Manager
> 
> Information Technology
> 
> Assumption College
> 
> 500 Salisbury St.
> 
> Worcester, MA. 01609
> 
> 508-767-7006
> 
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> *From:* Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Quast, Robert 
> (InfoTechServ)
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:42 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* CCA agent announcement funcionality
> 
>  
> 
> With the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech, our University is (and I'm 
> sure many universities are) looking at how to communicate to our
campus 
> in the event of a disaster.  Although many mediums are being
considered, 
> I personally recall many requests in the past for the ability to send
an 
> announcement to clean access users through the clean access agent.  I 
> believe many administrators wanted the functionality to announce 
> downtimes.  I'd like to rekindle this discussion and find out if this
is 
> a feature that will be implemented.  Ideally I'd be able to send a
popup 
> message to all users on the clean access system and possibly change
them 
> into a role that requires them to acknowledge the popup before being 
> able to access the network again.  Does anyone else see an immediate 
> need for this functionality?
> 
>  
> 
> Rob Quast
> 
> Tech Systems
> 
> Central Connecticut State University
> 
> (860) 832-2057
> 
> [log in to unmask]
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>  
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