Mike, We demoed the product last week and we were very impressed. In fact, the amount of features and things you can do with it were actually overwhelming. I'm interested to hear how you are using it and exactly what features you've found helpful that other products don't have. In particular, I liked the guest manager because it allows you to provide an interface to your users to be able to create guest accounts and also manage them. We currently have an application that we wrote in-house where our staff and faculty can go to to create guest accounts for up to seven days. The challenge is that among our staff and faculty, there are those that have special needs and need to be able to create accounts for longer than 7 days, change passwords, that kind of thing. I know this is not available now, but I was told that with guest manager you will be able to provide this type of access. In our case, we authenticate users via AD. So if and when this feature becomes available, we should be able to create an AD group where we can add the users with special needs.
The other reason why we are interested in idEngines is because if you create guest accounts using Cisco's Lobby Ambassador (if you are familiar with WCS), those accounts are only valid for WLANs with WebAuth. We've been having to pull all kinds of tricks to be able to create accounts for our secure PEAP WLAN, our guest WebAuth WLAN, and our wired LAN. It would be nice to have one interface that does it all. Thanks, -Hector -----Original Message----- From: King, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] idEngines AAA server We have it here. You may contact me on or off list. (We also have the Autoconnect product, and the Guest Manager) Mike -----Original Message----- From: Hector J Rios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] idEngines AAA server This is for those of you that are familiar with idEngines' AAA server, Ignition Server. We are considering this product to replace our Cisco ACS servers. From what I've seen so far, the Ignition Server seems much more granular and feature-rich. One of the features that we liked the most is their Guest manager. Is there anybody that is currently using this product? I'd be interested to hear what you think about it. Thanks Hector Rios Telecommunications Analyst, NI LSU Information Technology Services ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
