Re: Experiences using Bradford Campus Manager (1) on a large campus network or (2) multiple instances

[Aaron Childs <aaron () WSC MA EDU>]

We just installed Campus Manager over the Winter Break.  I am not sure
what you classify as a large ResNet, last year we had around 2100
registered clients in our dorms.  So far in general our experience with
Campus Manager has been great.

We did have a large volume of HelpDesk calls the week students moved
back but we were expecting that.  I highly recommend you get the CAT
tool with the installation, we made a last minute decision to add that
and so far it has helped us make sure that student's machines are clean
before registering.  Last semester our dorm bandwidth was constantly at
100% utilization mostly due to peer-to-peer applications and viruses, so
far this semester students are consuming on average 30%-50% of their
allotted bandwidth.

Aaron

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Aaron Childs
Assistant Director, Networking
Westfield State College
http://www.wsc.ma.edu/it/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Morrow Long [mailto:morrow.long () YALE EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:18 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Experiences using Bradford Campus Manager (1) on a
large
> campus network or (2) multiple instances
>
> We are looking at Bradford Campus Manager as a commercial
> alternative for network registration, automatic Nessus scanning
> as a part of network registration, etc.
>
> However, it appears to be primarily deployed at institutions
> with smaller networks.
>
> We are interested in everyone's experiences with Bradford Campus
> Manager -- but particularly those who have tested and/or deployed
> it in large research university environments or with large resnets.
>
> We are also particularly interested in hearing from anyone who
> has multiple instances of Bradford Campus Manager on their
> campus network as well as comments on scalability and failure
> mode recovery (fail-over, redundancy, MTTF, etc.).
>
> Looking for any and all experiences (good, bad, indifferent).
> I'll summarize to the list. Please reply to me off-list. Thanks.
>
> - H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM
>    University Information Security Officer
>    Director -- Information Security Office
>    Yale University, ITS
>
> - H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM
>    University Information Security Officer
>    Director -- Information Security Office
>    Yale University, ITS
>
>
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