As we continue to roll out CCA to our faculty/staff this year we here suggestions about streamlining the login process. A professor pointed out that the login process for Clean Access is several steps where the Cisco VPN is quite a bit less obtrusive (from off campus)
Here were some thoughts that this professor had. If there are already existing solutions for this please let me know. Otherwise maybe these can be incorporated into future releases of the client. 1) When you first turn on your computer and the Clean Access Agent prompts for your username and password can you make this automatically populated so you just need to click next? I know clicking Remember Me will make the username/password persist until you power off your computer. (I know SSO would possibly be a solution here but I heard this can actually slow down the login process. True statement?) What about focusing context to the password field? 2) "Successfully logged into the Network" is this a valuable screen to have. The Prof would prefer not to have to click OK and make the screen go away. Would rather it just 'disappear' like the Cisco VPN once it has done it's job. Profs e-mail: My only complaint is having to hit "OK" when it's all done. If this is something I'm going to have to do every day when starting up the computer, at least the software could minimize the annoyance. Three separate screens for this routine procedure is too much. As an example of a "good" interface, I'd point to the Cisco VPN login. It stores my login ID, and puts the cursor in the password box. As soon as I type that and hit enter, it closes all windows and goes to work.
