Hello everyone,
I am in the process of completing a great project our site started almost a year ago - a Free Cisco lab for the World's IT community.
This lab's concept came from our site's main goal - to provide free education and services to the world, no matter what the educational level or financial state of our individual visitors are.
We've already purchased our equipment and setup our Cisco labs and have stumbled across one last detail which is causing much trouble and frustration. As a result, we are unable to launch the labs and make them freely available to the IT community.
As such, I'd like to share this problem with this new's group community, in hope of a resolution.
Our Cisco lab is based on a 2511 terminal server, online booking system and Tacacs+ server (freeware edition based on Linux). The problem we are experiencing has to do with each lab's equipment, where we are having trouble resetting them to a default state after a user has completed his session. Resetting them is required to ensure the lab's equipment are ready for the next user.
I've noticed that many of the Cisco lab facilities offered by sites where you pay for this server, offer such features where you can reset all lab equipment with the touch of a button, but also save your configuration for your next session!
We are planning to add such advanced features in the future, but need to take care first of critical features such as resetting to a default state.
Any help or suggestions are highly appreciated.
Thank you.
Chris P.