Campus Manager Presenters: Andy Babb & Ryan Lininger Denison University
What’s To Come Denison’s Background Environment Previous Setup Current Setup Future Setup The Good and Bad Questions
Background Environment Population: 2,100 Students, 600 Employees, 300 Labs Cisco Switches –IOS and CATOS Mixed Vendor Wireless (Cisco, 5G) Have Many VLANs Distributed routing design –No single aggregated point for traffic Desire to improve students ability to register on their own
Previous NAC Setup Previous system was home grown system Previous registration system required up to 10 minutes for the services to update DHCP information. No client validation Much of the information was self reported –I.E. input errors. Lots of staff hours in fall during student move in –Lots of development hours as well Sasser and Blaster motivated us to move to a new solution
Non-persistent client Out-of-Band solution fits with our network structure Wired Registration: Use VLAN switching Wireless Registration (Testing): DHCP/DNS manipulation LDAP authentication Student self remediation and validation Forced Registration and Role Based access in student spaces Staff hours invested in fall registration process is less than before and more services are provided Current NAC Setup
Client Listing
Denison NAC: Future Recently upgraded Campus Manager 4.0 moves away from Nessus Scans Persistent Client for Denison Owned Machines (possibly students also) Role Based Management Campus Wide –Testing role based access in academic areas now Helpdesk usage of Campus Manager Reporting & data mining from Campus Manager Disabling clients (policy violations)
The Good Support –Vendor and community Initial Setup Admin console runs on Apple and Windows Console interface is robust VLAN Switching works well Administrative view Protocol support (ssh, telnet, snmp) Game console registration
Admin Console
Game System Registration
The Bad Operator permissions are too limited Operator account interface Java setup of console is… umm… picky Reporting is limited Database API has room for growth Custom automation and scripting
Questions ? Andy Babb Ryan Lininger Campus Manager Listserv –