C360 or Cisco Expert-Level Training Script

I’ve been using the C360 labs for training and have gotten tired of fighting with window management. At first I figured it would be good practice for the lab, but now I’m just tired of messing with windows, so I wrote a script to help alleviate my annoyance.

The server and port range for the lab you work on changes every time you run a different lab, so the script had to take that into account.  If you pay attention the ports you connect to are sequential, so just check the port and server of R1 and you have everything to you need.

At the end of the script it puts the iTerm windows in the lower right-hand corner of my left screen so I don’t have to move it by hand.

Here are the pop-ups from the script:

-- 2016-12-04 
-- Jud Bishop 

set SERVER to the text returned of (display dialog ¬
	"Enter the server IP:" default answer "10.10.1.100")

set FIRSTPORT to the text returned of (display dialog ¬
	"Enter the first port:" default answer "11501")


tell application "iTerm"
	set netWindow to (create window with default profile)
	
	select first window
	
	set DEVICES to {"R1", "R2", "R3", "R4", "R5", "R6", "SW1", "SW2", "SW3", "SW4", "R7", "R8", "R9", "BB"}
	repeat with I from 1 to 14
		tell current window
			set newTab to (create tab with default profile)
			tell current session
				write text "telnet " & SERVER & " " & FIRSTPORT
				set name to item I of DEVICES
				set FIRSTPORT to FIRSTPORT + 1
			end tell
		end tell
	end repeat
	set the bounds of the first window to {1000, 500, 1900, 1200}
end tell