Inside CCIE Lab : Using SecureCRT

On the D-day, you will get SecureCRT, most probably version 3/4 on the desktop of Windows XP .

There will be  icon of SecureCRT for individual routers and switches along with Terminal Server.

You can either open individual shortcut link to R1 to R6, SW1 to SW4 and TermServ but not to Backbone routers.  But if you learn the default keyboard shortcuts of SecureCRT  [Menu: Help --> Contents --> "Table of Keymap" ], it will save a lot of time. Apart from it,  You can map Scroll bar/Menu/Telnet/Vt/ssh functions or even map macros to keyboard shortcuts. You will find the detail from Help Menu or at this link.

Brian Dennis, CCIE5 #2210 Suggest the following: “

Even though you won’t have the latest version of SecureCRT you can make some basic changes to the default settings.  Here are a few common ones:

1) Set the screen scrollback buffer to the maximum

2) Log the screen output to a file

3) Map the menu function of copy-paste to the ~ key using the keymap editor.  This means you can just highlight something with the mouse and then hit the ~ key to paste the highlighted data.

4) Change the screen color from black on white to green on black. “

Tips: Go through the Help Documentation of SecureCRT for available features in the Lab. I found it the best

source to learn expert using of SecureCRT features.

~ by mustafagolam on July 21, 2008.