Man, that's rough Aaron. Sorry to hear!
Regards,
Jay McMickle- CCIE #35355 (RS), 3x CCNP (RS,Security,Design)
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On Aug 27, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Aaron O'Conner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it just depends on what URL it’s going to. I know that you have some
> config examples available, but if you try to browse to any other site it will
> be blocked. I had no issue with trying to pull up a site, but it would block
> them unless it was under certain categories that you said below.
>
> This last attempt I didn’t have any problem accessing the documentation site.
> However on my attempt about a year ago, I was not able to look up items I
> was supposed to get to. I told the proctor that the documentation website
> was not working and he said, “This happens sometimes, sorry.” I wouldn’t
> rely too much on the documentation, or the availability of it. You should
> only be looking at the site for reference anyway, and not complete config
> examples.
>
> With all that said, I must be attracted to things breaking during my lab. My
> attempt about a year ago, the fire alarm started going off in San Jose about
> 11:00am. Although we got an extra 30 minutes because of it, it’s a
> concentration breaker J. My last attempt a couple of weeks ago, my host
> computer was not working. I couldn’t use IDM to configure the IPS to get
> physical connectivity up. Then once they fixed it, I had issues with my IPS
> cabling. Three of the Gig ports where not hooked up physically to the switch.
>
> Good luck with your studies everyone.
>
> Aaron
>
> From: Ben Shaw [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 7:04 AM
> To: Adil Pasha
> Cc: Aaron O'Conner; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] Documentation Access in Lab
>
> Hi All
>
> I would agree that the path of documents under the Products section in the
> link above is available however I had a strange issue when I did my exam in
> San Jose a few weeks ago.
>
> I could access the Reference and Configuration Guides fine but whenever I
> tried to access the Configuration Examples and Technotes or the Feature
> Guides which are in the same location the CPU on my PC would spike and I
> couldn't do anything. The pages would only partially load and I would get the
> error message at the bottom of the IE window saying "Loaded with errors". We
> had to reboot my PC and after it was rebooted I had the same issue whenever I
> tried to access those documents under these sections so I ended up giving up
> and just focusing on the Reference Guides and Configuration Guides.
>
> I can't explain completely why this occurred but I can only think of two
> things:
> - Web/URL filtering is performed via software on the PC and it was this which
> was causing it to spike when I went to these pages and caused them to only
> partially load
> - Just plain bad luck
>
> I know for a fact that there were other pages that were obviously blocked as
> when I went to them a splash screen would come up saying so but with these
> Feature Guides/Technotes this didn't happen, I just got the CPU spike and
> page failed to load properly causing it to be unusable.
>
> I hope this was a one off and I don't want to scare anyone into think that
> these pages are not available but I am just wary about it myself now and am
> not relying on having access to these pages in the exam.
>
> Has anyone had any similar experiences?
>
> Ben
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Adil Pasha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pretty strange, but possible.
>
> I took labs in RTP a few times and no issues yet. Thank God.
>
>
> Best Regards.
> ______________________
> Adil
>
> On Aug 24, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Aaron O'Conner wrote:
>
>
> San Jose, but I’m sure it’s the same everywhere.
>
> From: Adil Pasha [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:12 PM
> To: Aaron O'Conner
> Cc: Anthony Sequeira; Jason Madsen; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] Documentation Access in Lab
>
> Where did you take your lab?
>
>
>
> On Aug 24, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Aaron O'Conner wrote:
>
>
> That is correct. I just took the lab you have access to that link.
>
> Also make sure you verify all of your layer 1 connectivity and alert the
> proctor if you think something is down. I had a couple of interfaces on my
> IPS that wouldn’t come up due to a cable issue on the rack. I wasted time
> trying to troubleshoot that thinking it was something I could have done.
>
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony
> Sequeira
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:24 PM
> To: Jason Madsen; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] Documentation Access in Lab
>
> As I understand it – it is everything from this Products node:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.html?mode=prod
>
> From: Jason Madsen <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:06 PM
> To: CCIE Security <[email protected]>
> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Security] Documentation Access in Lab
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know what documentation will be allowed during the Sec lab? I'm
> guessing only Config Guides and Cmd Reference docs? No Whitepapers, Tech
> Guides, etc?
>
> I know "back in the day", it was the good old "Doc CD". Since then, the
> config guides, cmd references, and such seem to be in a much different place
> to navigate to.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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