CIS 278 Visio Lab

Introduction to Visio

This exercise will help you get acquainted with Visio. It is due next week.

General Lab Issues

Visio software is available on the "A" network hard drives in the CC206A computer lab, and at all the workstations in the main CRC lab. It is also on the special "B" network hard drives that may be used for our labs. PCC has upgraded all computers to the newer version of Visio, which is Professional 2002 SR-1 10.0.2514.

When printing to the Lexmark Optra T612 in the CC206A lab, you may have to change to a different print format before you send the job to the printer, or some of the text may be unreadable. If you find this to be true, from within Visio click File-> Page Setup->Print Setup->Tab->Setup->Printer->Properties->Font Tab and select the Print as Graphics option. Visio is accessed by clicking Start, Programs, and Microsoft Office.

Visio Lab Assignment

  1. Draw a network diagram of the CC206a lab.
  2. Draw a network diagram of the design you worked on in our last class. It has 200 workstations in a 3 floor building with 10 servers, 5 normal printers and 1 high speed printer. Each floor of the building is 150’ by 150’

Lab Details

Begin by opening the program and select Networks from the list under Category. (What you see when you open Visio varies by version and your configuration).

You should see a series of overlapping “stencils” on the left side of your screen. Select Basic Networks. This should have most of the icons you’ll need to get started. Scroll down to the bottom of the stencil to find the connectors. You will need these to interconnect your devices. Try to get as much detail as possible, without making it appear cluttered. Put each drawing on a separate standard 8½” X 11” piece of paper. Investigate features available in Visio and include them as appropriate.

Use the following information as you draw the networking lab.

  • The room is approximately 20 feet by 40 feet
  • 24 Dell workstations
  • HP printer ("A" network)
  • Lexmark printer ("B" network)
  • 24 switchboxes(A/B network selector)
  • 2 16 port hubs
  • 1 24 port patch panel
  • 2 win2k servers("B" network)
  • 1 Linux server("B" network)
  • 1 server monitor
  • "A" network
  • "B" network

Check out this competitor to Visio and how they make diagrams.

You may find the following interesting as well:

Here is a link that shows how some people diagram WAN connections:

Here is a diagram showing how one person drew a LAN

Here’s a very simple home network setup diagram

Here’s a diagram that shows connectivity pretty clearly and adds some port identification information.

Here is an example of a network design that uses an expanded view: