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What version of CAS are you running? 

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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of WENDY SHIH
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: Login grayed out?
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> Hi,
> Somehow today we are seeing a few of the grayed out login.   
> Our office is
> in the different vlan than the users.   The interesting thing 
> is at least 2
> had brought computers to us and they worked just fine in our 
> office.   But
> when they took it back, the login is greyed out again.  They 
> all got correct ips and can release/renew fine.  Rebooted and 
> even try to login from Safe mode with networking still no use 
> until we rebooted the CAS
> server.      I hope we don't have to reboot too often.  It is 
> just time
> consuming to troubleshoot these issues  when rebooting CAS 
> will fix it right away.
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> Just to answer any questions, this is what we have tried on the client
> side:
> 1. Verify that is has an IP address assigned by our CAS 2. 
> Reboot the computer 3. Uninstall/Reinstall the agent 4. 
> Disabled any firewall (including XP firewall) 5. Exiting and 
> restarting the agent
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> We have seen it on student computers running agent 3.5.4, 
> 3.5.5, 3.5.6, and 3.5.7. The only way we have been able to 
> get these computers back online is by restarting the CAS, but 
> restarting our CAS several times a day is not a feasible long 
> term solution.
> 
> Jason Drake
> IT Coordinator, Residential Network Services University of 
> California, Irvine
> (949) 824-9543
> http://resnet.uci.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perfigo SecureSmart and CleanMachines Discussion List 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of nick pistentis
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:34 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Login grayed out?
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> Each time we've seen this, the user's firewall was blocking 
> ccaagent.exe _____________________________________
> Nicholas Pistentis
> Manager, Student Technology Services
> George Washington University
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> 202.994.6202
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> Jason Drake wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > We began rolling out CCA about a month ago and up until the server
> upgrade
> > to 3.5.5 and agent 3.5.6 everything was running fairly smooth. 
> > Starting yesterday (after everyone was kicked) when some 
> users attempt 
> > to login,
> the
> > login option is grayed out.
> >
> > The users are:
> > 1. Receiving a valid IP from the CAS
> > 2. Able to access our website (which is open to the unauthenticated 
> > role) 3. Able to ping the CAS 4. Redirected to the web 
> login and able 
> > to download the agent from the
> CAS
> >
> > We opened a TAC with Cisco and after about 4 hours on the 
> phone, their 
> > highly technical solution was to reboot the CAS and the CAM which 
> > seemed
> to
> > resolve the issue. Cisco was unable to give us any answers 
> on what is 
> > causing this, or how to prevent it. We seem to have this 
> problem with 
> > at least 3 of our 4 CAS. The problem has started up again this 
> > morning,
> which
> > was again resolved by a reboot.
> >
> > We currently have about 2800 users online, but have received about 
> > 100+ complaints about users not being able to login.
> >
> > Are any other universities experiencing this? We are very close to
> rolling
> > back to our old system if we are not able to come up with a timely 
> > resolution, especially since move-in for our undergrads is 
> on Saturday 
> > bringing us another 3000+ potentially angry students.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jason Drake
> > IT Coordinator, Residential Network Services University of 
> California, 
> > Irvine
> > (949) 824-9543
> > http://resnet.uci.edu
> >
> >
> >
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