I did something similar to this. I opened mine in order so they were R1-R6 in the task bar. However I ordered the windows differently. What I did was place them in a similar layout as to what was in the network diagram. So when I look at the diagram on the page, the router is on the same location in the screen.
This is what worked for me. Everyone else's mileage may vary :) What sucked was when a connection line jammed and I had to clear line, I needed to close all the windows and reopen (depending on which line that jammed of course) in the right order to maintain consistency. I learned very quickly that you cant move items around on the task bar in Windows like you can with OSX and Linux :( But I hear now that the "workbook" is now a pdf on the screen as opposed to a folder (?????). If so this does not help much... What would help here is the OS had multiple desktops like OSX or Linux and you could have your workbook on one screen, diagram on another, routers on another and switches on the last one. Thats what I think anyway. But I am not a proctor so it makes no difference what I think :P Cheers, Matt CCIE #22386 CCSI #31207 On 20 March 2010 17:38, Marko Milivojevic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:06, Matt Hill <[email protected]> wrote: >> My advice is you should know what you are doing. >> >> You are tested on what is in the blueprint, not on how awesome you are >> with SecureCRT scripts or changing the font size in Putty. > > This is spot-on. That said... there are things you can do to make your > life easier. > > Use the screen! You are given nice 24" wide screen. Arrange terminal > windows in a way it makes sense to you (personally, I arrange them > diagonally, with R1 being top-left and Rx bottom right, switches form > a square). Also, open all the routers in sequence, starting from R1. > Again, I open switches first, then I have Notepad open and then > routers. That way when I look at taskbar, I don't have to think where > is my R3, or worry that title is all messed up. > > That said, it would be nice if title would actually state the name of > the device and not to mention PuTTY connection manager or tabbed > SecureCRT. That would totally rock. Well... perhaps we can hope. > > -- > Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 > Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert > > YES! We include 400 hours of REAL rack > time with our Blended Learning Solution! > > Mailto: [email protected] > Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 > Fax: +1.810.454.0130 > Web: http://www.ipexpert.com/ > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
