I do not know how difficult it is to manage the users, teaching them to navigate the iOS settings to delete the 802.1x profile as they return the iPad... but on the loaning side, autoconfig, cloudpath or even a mobileconfig profile should get users onboard quickly. I can tell you that in cisco land with a current controller revision it is possible to syslog the Radius authentication logging. We use Splunk, but rsyslog should also be useful if scrubbing the text logs for attribution data is not sufficient. I suspect Aruba and others might be similar.
Randall Grimshaw [email protected] ________________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [[email protected]] on behalf of Luke Jenkins [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPads, Labs/classroom use, 802.1x - Take Two This question was asked 18 months ago by William from UTA, but without much in the way of an answer. The replies immediately went down a cloudpath rabbit hole, never to be seen again. Here is what William asked, and exactly the situation my team was put in today: "Does anyone have experience managing iPads for classrooms (where an iPad is given to each user and returned at the end of the course, only for the next class to pick them up)? I'm interested in how to manage credentials in an 802.1x environment (to ensure actions on the network are attributable to the user at that time). If someone has resolved this, I'd like to speak with them, we have instructors working on proposals." We have a 'no generic account' policy on our campus, and if it is possible we want all of our students to use their own credentials at the start of the class period with the iPads getting amnesia at the end. It seems that re-syncing them using the Apple Configurator or iTunes is the only way, but I wanted to check with the hive mind to see if anyone had some neat trick. Ideally it is a setting/template to be used, and not some MDM/onboarding solution. -Luke =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Luke Jenkins Network Engineer Weber State University ********** 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/.
