What is Cisco Configuration Professional?

Cisco Configuration Professional is software application developed by Cisco Systems, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 57.59% of installations running this operating system. Cisco Configuration Professional's installer is typically 672.00 KB in size and installs around 166 files. The most common release is 1.2 with 64.92% of all installations currently using this version.

Cisco Configuration Professional is most popular in the United States with 51.92% of installations residing in this country.

Cisco Configuration Professional adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Cisco Configuration Professional is known to create 4 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Cisco Configuration Professional?

Cisco Configuration Professional provides intelligent wizards and advanced configuration assistance for LAN and WAN interfaces, Network Address Translation (NAT), stateful and application firewall policies, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), IPSec and SSL Virtual Private Network (VPN), Quality of Service (QoS), and Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) policy features.

Software Behaviors

Services:

cvpnd.exe runs as a service named 'Serena Software VPN Service' (CVPND).

Firewall:

CiscoJabber.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\Cisco Jabber\CiscoJabber.exe'.
vpngui.exe is added as a firewall exception for '%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\VPNGUI.exC:*:enableC:Cisco x86'.
cvpnd.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\cvpnd.exC:*:enableC:Cisco VPN'.
ipsecdialer.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\ipsecdialer.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

ipsecdialer.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{63324E12-1D0E-41D7-B375-9D094297C142}' (runs on registration).
vpngui.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{FF6527DA-FE30-4B51-ABC8-1A4BC8722826}' (runs on registration).
CiscoCP.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{FC24D026-ACA5-4DC8-904F-6F60262AD723}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

ipsecdialer.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Cisco Systems VPN Client' and executes as C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\ipsecdialer.exe.
CiscoJabber.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Cisco Jabber' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\Cisco Jabber\CiscoJabber.exe".

Software Details

URL:

https://www.cisco.com

Support:

https://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{29342492-9F4F-4089-866A-10D801B610FD}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly

Size:

672.00 KB

Language: