Do you use PuTTY for accessing cisco devices at work?

I use PuTTY for practice but I was wondering do people use that at work as well? or do they use something more professional from cisco?

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Dieg0M

Superputty.

E Double U

I use:

PuTTY for routers & switches
ASDM for ASA
IDM for IPS

finhack

MTPuTTY, tabbed PuTTY

mikeybinec

TeraTerm....I'll check out Secure sometime..Never heard of it

alan2308

Putty all the way. Its a small stand alone executable and cross platform. What's not to love?

ccnpninja

1- SecureCRT
2- Putty

jeffgibbs

I like both putty / superputty as well as teraterm but I hear secureCRT is great.

carwashguy

SecureCRT at work superPutty at home

networker050184

alan2308 wrote: »

Putty all the way. Its a small stand alone executable and cross platform. What's not to love?

The lack of tabs alone is enough to make me not want to use it. The defaults for copy/paste are pretty annoying too but nothing you can't change. Lacks sending commands to multiple tabs. No scripted logins and other features.

PuTTY will get the job done, but as someone who spends a lot of time on multiple sessions it's just not very practical.

Robonon

I started using PuTTY in my first job as an ISP NOC tech, and just stuck with it. Now I'm helpdesk/network support and still use PuTTY. A few weeks ago I found SuperPuTTY and it is awesome. No tabs was always my biggest gripe, and that's finally been put to rest!

mikerodriguez

Yup, we use putty at work.

Ibro Shazi

Putty Works Fine, Its the easiest software usable for router configuration out there.

Ltat42a

I use MTpuTTY at work. It uses the regular puTTY, has multiple tabs, and works pretty good.

Jon_Cisco

I have never used a tabbed terminal emulator. Can you open connections to multiple router with single serial connection?
I currently use an access server to connect to each device but it would be nice if I could keep the windows opened rather then switching devices each time.

Magic Johnson

I've been using Putty. Just downloaded SuperPutty, will check that out. Cheers guys.

Iristheangel

My excuse my seem silly. I know that SecureCRT works a lot better than Putty but to be honest, the only reason I use Putty is to be used to it and fast with it. My goal is eventually to get to the CCIE R&S and I've heard enough horror stories about people who labbed with SecureCRT and used to the ease of it only to find themselves slowed down when they were forced to use Putty in the R&S lab. It's a speed test as much of a knowledge test

pitviper

SecureCRT for work and lab for me. I will use Putty in a pinch though (when I don't have a laptop on hand).

I like the ability to start up tabbed sessions for an entire site (voice gateways, switches, CUCM, CUC and so on) by just right clicking on a folder in the session manager window. I know Putty can do it with add-ons but blaaah.

Ltat42a

Jon_Cisco wrote: »

I have never used a tabbed terminal emulator. Can you open connections to multiple router with single serial connection?
I currently use an access server to connect to each device but it would be nice if I could keep the windows opened rather then switching devices each time.

I haven't tried MTpuTTY to do that. I use it to telnet to several devices on a remote live rack. I'll try that and post back.

Ltat42a

Jon_Cisco wrote: »

I have never used a tabbed terminal emulator. Can you open connections to multiple router with single serial connection?
I currently use an access server to connect to each device but it would be nice if I could keep the windows opened rather then switching devices each time.

I tried using MTpuTTY on my home lab. I got it to work and was able to access all 8 of my devices, 1 tab for each. I used a single console cable from my PC to R1. Once I'm consoled in, I create a new Telnet session, MTpuTTY creates a new tab, type in the IP address.
Essentially, I console into R1, then telnet to all the other devices using MTpuTTY with each device in its own tab.

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