Configuring iTerm for Dynamips

To get star­ted with my lab faster I use iTerm to pre­pare a full set of pos­sible ses­sions. This post walks through how to do this which should help you to get star­ted faster. Also some key­board short­cuts.

Start iTerm and then open the Bookmarks win­dows. The win­dow should look some­thing like this:

At the bot­tom of the Bookmarks win­dows is a but­ton with a plus sign in it. Click this to add a book mark and con­fig­ure as shown here

Now repeat this for as many routers as you are likely to have in your biggest lab. For my MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM this is more than 20 routers so I have lis­ted 20 bookmarks.

Now close the Bookmarks win­dow, and select new from the tool­bar in the main win­dows and extend in to the new menu that you have just cre­ated, and then select the Open All option — as shown here:

iterm will open all of the ses­sions. When there is noth­ing to con­nect to, they will just shut­down and not be vis­ible on the tool­bar. This screen­shot shows act­ive ses­sions for a lab that has eight routers in it.

One of the great fea­tures of iTerm is the abil­ity to drag the tabs into new win­dows. Just click and hold the tab and then drag it off the ses­sion tool­bar to cre­ate a new windows

Once you have all the Windows open, you can switch between the first nine win­dows by using Command+1, Command+2, Command+3 etc. This makes switch­ing between the win­dows very quick.

If you decide to open all as sep­ar­ate win­dows this does not work.

Hope this helps to make your life a bit simpler.

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