Thanks for the update, Hector. We got this running as well, it does work. I don't care for the need to sychronize the Loc Servers, but what the hey. Right before Christmas, I was able to shut down a one-man, years-running crime spree with this. Our police were thrilled, and a lot of people got property returned to them, so we have already seen value.
-Lee ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hector J Rios [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Stolen Wireless Device Tracking? Lee, I’m following up on this thread from last year. We finally got Context Aware Notifications working on the MSE. We had a couple of issues but TAC helped us get them solved. The notifications are actually pretty cool and something that we had been looking for quite a while. We now should be able to better assist campus police with the detection and tracking of those occasional stolen laptops. BTW, we are running 6.0.170.0 on WCS and 6.0.188.0 on the WiSMs. Thanks, Hector Rios Louisiana State University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Stolen Wireless Device Tracking? Hi Mike- I just got new information from Cisco. As you mention, with their location appliances/MSEs, you can accomplish this in the Context Aware Notifications. I feel silly for not knowing about it, but we are newly on newer code, and I think it’s a recently added feature. But I’ll be leveraging it soon. -Lee ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike King Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Stolen Wireless Device Tracking? Not sure if have the location product, but I was able to setup an alert using the location product. It was a few years ago, but I believe it was pretty simple. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Unfortunately, we experience the occasional theft of University-owned or personal laptops. Using Cisco WCS, we can certainly find the last place a device was, if the wireless adapter was on, before it egressed campus. What is missing is a mechanism to “flag” a MAC address to alert on a client device if it pops back up on the network so there may be an opportunity to react. Has anyone else faced and conquered alerting on specific clients (for whatever reason)? Thanks- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ********** 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/. ********** 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/.
