Minuwet Statistics

August 2009

Erick Engelke

Engineering Computing

 

 

Minuwet was enabled on the campus Aruba environment this term.  In addition to providing network access control, it provides us with useful data about client machines.
 
There were about 152,000 logins by 11,970 users during the last 30 days (July 10-Aug 10, 2009). 
 
87% of the logins are running minuwet.  The other 13% are not; they either do not use the Internet or are using 802.1X for which minuwet is not presently enabled.
 
OS Breakdown (of total minuwet userids)
Student OS Breakdown
Faculty OS Breakdown

 
Staff OS Breakdown The breakdown is not totally accurate, several users dual boot or use virtualization to run multiple operating systems.
 
While Windows dominates, MacOS is proving very popular and Linux can't be ignored.  From this we learn campus software purchases should consider Mac compatibility wh enever possible.
 
The 1604 iPhones vastly outnumbered the 168 blackberries on our wireless networks.
 
Of the devices claiming to be Windows,
·         16% fail minuwet
·         53% pass minuwet
·         32% don't run minuwet
 
The 32% which don't run minuwet either choose not to run it, or have javascript turned off on their browser. Some security people  recommend people turn off javascript.
 
The breakdown of Windows web browsers is
·         Gecko (firefox) 45%
·         MS IE 42%
·         Chrome 9%
·         Opera 0.9%
·         Safari 0.7%
 
Some users use multiple browsers.
 
The breakdown of all web browsers for all operating systems is
·         Gecko (firefox) 40 %
·         MS IE 30%
·         Safari 9%
·         iPhone 9%
·         Chrome 7%
·         Opera 5%
 
Again, some users use multiple browsers.
 
Among Windows users, XP is still popular despite most laptops being sold with Vista for the last few years:
·         Windows 2000 0.07%
·         XP 47 %
·         Vista 50%
·         Windows 7 Beta 3%
 
 
Erick Engelke        
Director
Engineering Computing
University of Waterloo
erick@uwaterloo.ca