I would tend to agree. ECU has a home grown IP Auto Registration (IPAR)
application designed for student use back in 1998. When CCA was
installed in the Residence halls, that requirement was dropped since
they login with their PirateID (Exchange account). The CCA logs are
routed to a syslog server which is queried by IP address to get login
information (PirateID, Mac Address, Date/Time). A second query to LDAP
gets the name associated with the login.

NetReg looks pretty cool and I certainly understand why and what it is
used for. Back in 1997 it would take two weeks for two people to
register 600 or so student machines. By August 2000, IPAR was
registering 4,000 plus student machines without network or RezNet staff
intervention. Registration went from two weeks to less than a minute.
:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Grinnell
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 13:00
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Using NetReg with Clean Access environment

Brad,

Typically CCA replaces a NetReg like system.  When a user logs in, it  
captures their UserID, IP, MAC address, and OS in the logs.  You can  
also use RADIUS accounting or the API to view this information.  The  
user essentially re-registers every time they log in.

Michael Grinnell
Information Security Engineer
The American University


On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Brad Kinder wrote:

> Is anyone else out there using NetReg with their Clean Access  
> environment?
> We use NetReg to carry out the task of having students register their
> computer when they come to campus each fall.  Registration is the  
> first step
> and then it verifies their updates and anti-virus.
>
> We have ran into some issues with registration this fall and I am  
> interested
> in hearing from anyone that has the same environment.