The project manager of a university information department once told me that the actual name certification, which was technically done for three days, actually landed it, often took three months to get it. The remodeling of the WiFi network real name certification system in the dormitory building, no code, no equipment, but people.——In the governance structure, in the legacy of history, it is unclear where the interests are.
The starting point for remodeling the network of dormitories is often one."Compliance pressure"
Most colleges start the physical name of the dormitory, not by initiative but by reactive response.——The project itself carries the test, the requirements for a network security audit by a higher authority, or the pressure of correction after a crisis."Task Colours"The implementation team did not have much time to conduct detailed research, often directly incorporating a common WiFi web-based real name certification system programme and then starting to have problems.
The network structure of the dormitories is quite different from that of the teaching buildings. The network of the building is relatively simple, with few access points and a high mobility of the population, the same account number is in place for more locations, and the chaining logic of real names is relatively relaxed."Bed-space common router"This is a phenomenon in which four to eight items of equipment should actually be used behind an account.
Conflict between account binding logic and actual accommodation usage
WiFi network real name certification system is usually designed to assume"One person, account number one equipment."Or..."One account per person with multiple devices"But in the college dormitory scene, this assumption is almost wrong from the outset. The real Internet habit of students is that one dormitory has a router, four people have an account login, and each cell phone, computer, tablet is connected to the router. Once the actual name certification system is online, it requires that each device be individually tied to its own physical account number, causing a massive complaint immediately.
And the more complicated part is that there are some in the dormitory."Networked", which is self-directed, small local area networks are organized and even multilayer NATs are used as soft circuitrs. These acts are completely transparent in environments that were not originally certified by a real name.——Whoever's using it anyway. Once the real name certification system gets involved, the first thing this group feels is that they're not going to be able to use it."Device cannot be authenticated"Their complaints are often the most intense, as they are used in a way that is natural and logically opposed to system.
Negative collaboration between building managers and logistics
The physical manager of the dormitory building is logistics, and information-processing projects are usually led by information centres. Coordination between the two departments has never been smooth.
But the logistics department has its own logic: accommodation buildings have physical security management requirements and outside construction staff come in to perform approval processes; building managers are not IT personnel, and it is an extra workload that they support students in completing certification; if there is a problem with the certification system, the first person to be called by the student is the building manager rather than the information centre. In such cases, logistics work often stays behind."Do not try to block it."At the level of information, real progress is on the Information Centre itself.
Compatibility issues arising from old and old network infrastructure
Some of the university dormitory facilities have been in use for more than 10 years, and there are old exchange switches, AP equipment, and even web lines. WiFi network real name certification systems need to be reoriented on access levels to Portal, which requires a switch or AC controller to support the corresponding protocol and strategy configuration.
One project team encountered the same type of switch, different year out, different hardware versions. Some of these were randomly cut off after Portal was reoriented and another normal. The screening process took almost two weeks, and it ended up finding that there was a known memory leak when older solids were being redirected to HTTPs, and the vendor had stopped maintaining the equipment without updated solids to brush.
Authentication failed due to incomplete student data entry
The actual name certification is conditional on the existence of a database of accurate student names. Higher education institutions usually have an academic system, which should theoretically be directly connected to each other.
These data problems are often not fully exposed before the authentication system is online, because there is no need to verify student data on previous networks."Authentication failed"The feedback comes in, and the information centre realizes how serious the problem is with school-based data. Rehabilitating data is a cumbersome task that requires multiple departments to work together, often dragging the entire top-line rhythm.
Common causes of pilot failure
Many universities choose to pilot one or several dormitories before they can be replicated. But the case of a failed pilot is not uncommon. The reason for failure is usually not technical, but rather inappropriate choice of the building.——For example, a building with a large number of senior graduate students who are highly dependent on the network and have a strong culture of rights, has been selected to react particularly hard when certification systems affect normal use, with far greater numbers of complaints than expected, which has forced the pilot to be suspended.
Another common failure is that the pilot failed to provide sufficient support during its lifetime. Students failed to identify anyone, call people, send no online work, and end up postings on social media.
Practical recommendations to advance the rhythm
Based on these common resistance, the push pace for real name re-engineering of accommodation buildings should be: to decode the equipment and then to comb the data and do a small-scale containment test (non-advocacy), to identify problems internalized and stabilize before selecting one."Low risk"Buildings are publicly piloted and support systems are created simultaneously, which leads to a building-by-house rollout.
The rhythm looks slow, but it's much better than rushing to a successful conclusion and then being forced to stop. WiFi network real name certification system is not itself complicated by technical logic, and it is project manager who really decides whether or not the project will succeed."Where's the resistance?"The judgment is accurate.