Specifications

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Cisco NAC Appliance Agents
This chapter presents overviews, login flow, and session termination dialogs for the following
Cisco NAC Appliance access portals:
• Cisco NAC Agent, page 10-1
• Cisco NAC Web Agent, page 10-25
• Mac OS X Cisco NAC Agent, page 10-44
Note For details on the Windows versions of the Clean Access Agent that are still supported in release 4.9(5),
refer to the Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Manager Installation and Configuration Guide,
Release 4.9(x) and the corresponding Release Notes for Cisco NAC Appliance.
Cisco NAC Agent
This section describes how to configure the Cisco NAC Agent to allow users to log in to the internal
network via a persistent network access application installed on the client machine.
• Windows Cisco NAC Agent Overview, page 10-1
• Configuration Steps for the Windows Cisco NAC Agent, page 10-3
• Windows Cisco NAC Agent User Dialogs, page 10-3
Windows Cisco NAC Agent Overview
The Cisco NAC Agent provides local-machine Agent-based posture assessment and remediation for
client machines. The Cisco NAC Agent is designed to provide user login capability on a wide range of
Windows client machines, including clients running 64-bit operating systems, and offers “double-byte”
support to enable native localization for a large variety of languages.
Users download and install the Cisco NAC Agent (read-only client software), which can check the host
registry, processes, applications, and services. The Cisco NAC Agent can be used to perform Windows
updates or antivirus/antispyware definition updates, launch qualified remediation programs, distribute
files uploaded to the Clean Access Manager, distribute website links to websites in order for users to
download files to fix their systems, or simply distribute information/instructions.
Users without administrator privileges upgrading their Windows client machine from an earlier version
of the Clean Access Agent (version 4.5.2.0 or 4.1.10.0 and earlier) to the Cisco NAC Agent must have
the CCAAgentStub.exe Agent Stub installed on the client machine to facilitate upgrade. (Users with