Comments on: Cisco admin tools

By: Dermot ALEXANDER

Dermot ALEXANDER — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:52:56 +0000

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By: setttler

setttler — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:21:53 +0000

THNX for PuTTY Connection Manager … I hope that 64bit support will be released ASAP!

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:55:31 +0000

PuTTY Connection Manager 0.7.0.4470 : http://puttycm.free.fr/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=111

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:43:23 +0000

I use PuTTy (the newest versions now support Serial ports) and PuTTy Connection Manager http://puttycm.free.fr/ and TFTP32

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:02:31 +0000

Get a Mac!

Terminal.app - Just makes sense as it is all built in
nc - Need I say more

I am also using my EeePC now for all my datacentre work. Got BackTrack 3 on it and I use minicom and my USB dongle fine..

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:45:03 +0000

Yeah, How could I forget Wireshark. It is absolutely critical for troubleshooting!
As for USB to Serial, we have tried a few and settled on the Keyspan ones as shown here: http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa19hs/

They seem to be well enough built and have better OS support than Most!

Now if someone would just create a Serial that has a built in bluetooth controller and encryption. Could have one in every device in the rack then

Another good one is Kiwi Syslog. Useful little windows based Syslog Daemon. Have also been looking at Zenoss Open Source recently too, which is a network monitoring and graphing app. It has a nice Google map dashboard that shows the geographical location of your sites! Pretty cool

Thanks for the reply

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:27:28 +0000

Great list! Putty and TFTPD32 are indispensable.

Another couple hardware tools that I use frequently are a USB-Serial dongle and a straight-through (or rollover) RJ-45 coupler. The serial port is long gone from most laptops and having a coupler often keeps me from having to sit on the floor behind a rack.

Wireshark , the network protocol analyzer, is another excellent software tool as well.