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Chapter 10 Cisco NAC Appliance Agents

Cisco NAC Agent

Figure 10-15 Cisco NAC Agent Taskbar Menu

Taskbar menu options are as follows:

Clean Access Server and is not logged in. Logout means the user is already logged into Cisco NAC

Appliance. Disabled (grey) Login occurs when there is no SWISS response from the CAS to the

Cisco NAC Agent. This condition is expected in the following cases:

• The Cisco NAC Agent cannot find a Clean Access Server or the Agent is logged in, but has lost

contact with the CAS.

• OOB deployments: the Cisco NAC Agent user has already logged in through the CAS and is

now on the Access VLAN.

• Multi-hop Layer 3 (VPN/WLC) deployments with SSO: the user has authenticated through the

VPN concentrator and therefore is already automatically logged into Cisco NAC Appliance.

• Device Filters: MAC address-based authentication is configured for the machine of this user and

therefore no user login is required.

Popup Login Window—This option is set by default when the Cisco NAC Agent is first installed

and causes the Agent login dialog to automatically pop up when it detects that the user is behind a

Clean Access Server and is not logged in.

Enable Toast Notification—This option is available only for clients using Windows 8 as Operating

System. You can enable this option to send relevant notifications to the user. See Windows 8 Metro

and Metro App Support —Toast Notifications, page 10-13 for more details.

Log Packager—Click this option to run the support package and collect the logs. This option is

available only starting from Cisco NAC Appliance Release 4.9(1).

Properties—Selecting Properties brings up the Agent Properties and Information dialog

(Figure 10-16) which shows all of the AV and AS products installed on the client machine and the

Discovery Host for Layer 3 deployments.

You can access the above options by using the keyboard shortcuts as follows:

• L — Login/Logout

• A — About

• X — Exit

• R — Properties

• P — Popup Login Window