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About Cisco Clean Access

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. 

Microsoft Windows Users

There are five major criteria for gaining access to the network. If you meet all five, you will be allowed access.

  1. Valid Rockhurst network account.
  2. Windows XP Service Pack 3 or Windows Vista Service Pack 1. (Windows 2000, NT, ME, 98, 95 are not supported)
  3. Latest version of the Cisco Clean Access Agent software installed on your machine.
  4. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5 with the most current virus definitions. This software is provided for free to all university employees and students. Visit the McAfee Anti-Virus page for more information on obtaining this package.
  5. Required Microsoft issued updates and service packs installed for your operating system.

Apple Mac OS X Users

There are three major criteria for gaining access to the network. If you meet all three, you will be allowed access.

  1. Valid Rockhurst network account.
  2. Mac OS X 10.2 or higher with the latest updates applied. (Previous versions of OS X are not supported)
  3. Latest version of the Cisco Clean Access Agent software installed on your machine.

 

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.