Our student resident hall network used to be overwhelmed at times during the normal academic year due to virus and worm attacks. The purpose of Cisco Clean Access (CCA) is to help prevent “infected” systems from gaining access to the network and infecting other systems. The result should be good, consistent network availability.
In order to use our network, even for basic Internet access, we require users of Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X operating systems to run the Cisco Clean Access Agent. The agent will validate your network username and password, then scan your machine for vulnerabilities. Once you have been verified as a trusted user and your computer is deemed "clean", you will be allowed normal access to the network.
CCA is active in all residence halls, on all wireless access points, and open ports on the main campus.
There are five major criteria for gaining access to the network. If you meet all five, you will be allowed access.
There are three major criteria for gaining access to the network. If you meet all three, you will be allowed access.
Users of Linux, BSD or other operating systems will have to use the to authenticate to the network through a web browser, but currently we do not provide an agent for these systems. In addition, RUCS cannot provide technical support for these operating systems.