Cisco Admin Tools---must have for Cisco Engineers

Goldmember

I'm looking for the best(and possibly cheapest) tools for Cisco Engineers...

I found this great article online which describes some of them
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5649280.html


What are your favorites and must haves for Cisco routing and switching?


Thanks

Goldmember

dynamik

My Cisco toolkit consists soley of Putty, but I'm a nub

Thanks for sharing the link; those look interesting. Does anyone have any experience with any of those?

tmlerdal

I've used PRTG, but have stuck with MRTG. PRTG was a good intro for me before I really got mrtg figured out.

Couple of other tools I use are:
Solarwinds Professional Edition - tftp, network discovery, monitoring, snmp, etc.
MRTG - various network monitoring
Excel - or any other spreadsheet, use this for comparing configs or just building some generic configs and flagging the lines that need to change between devices
Editpadpro - text editor on steroids...has capability to use regular expressions in searches

Goldmember

Check out Crimson Editor for a great text editor as well. It views Cisco config files unmolested...

Ahriakin

My bread and butter:
Putty, Solarwinds TFTP, Wordpad, Excel (great for storing and quickly mass editing Access-lists and object-groups), Cisco IPS Event Viewer, Kiwi Syslog, Adventnet Firewall Analyzer and HypericHQ for availability monitoring.

KGhaleon

Goldmember wrote:

Check out Crimson Editor for a great text editor as well. It views Cisco config files unmolested...

lulz.

I've been playing with MRTG today, but it's rather confusing.
I certainly recommend puTTY.

tmlerdal

mrtg is pretty confusing at first, but once you get it, it makes a lot more sense.

I've got a handful of websites that help to set everything up. let me know if you want them.