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Must-know products for sys admins: Add yours

binarysoulbinarysoul Member Posts: 993
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Going beyond Cisco and Microsoft, there are many IT products companies use and having practical hands-on could help one's career. The two that come to mind are:

Symantec Ghost
Veritas Backup


I just took a nap, so I can't remember more :) Please add yours.
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    sagewalkintheresagewalkinthere Member Posts: 99 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Acronis True Image - good stuff
    Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D
    A.A.S. Multimedia Web Design, MCTS 70-623, MCTS 83-640, MCP 70-270, A+
    http://jasonereid.blogspot.com/
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    mikezmikez Member Posts: 26 ■□□□□□□□□□
    RealVNC
    Wireshark
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    Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    In the unix admin realm -

    rsync (who needs veritas, acronis, or ghost?)
    ssh
    awk
    sed
    some form of programming/scripting
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    RTmarcRTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Dameware
    Putty
    SamSpade
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    KeePass Password Safe
    TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
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    rsuttonrsutton Member Posts: 1,029 ■■■■■□□□□□
    I would say the biggest ones for me are:
    Sysinternals tools
    Wireshark
    Ping/Tracert
    NMAP
    Notepad - couldn't live without!
    Fluke
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    cheguarocheguaro Member Posts: 2 ■□□□□□□□□□
    VMWare

    ProceXP

    TCPView
    "There is no real me, I simply am not there"
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    msteinhilbermsteinhilber Member Posts: 1,480 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Excel - I've worked with too many admins over the years that couldn't go beyond basics (entering data and formatting cells basically).
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    AshenweltAshenwelt Member Posts: 266 ■■■■□□□□□□
    WhatsUpGold
    ManageEngine

    Managment tools are priceless.... for the admin.
    Ashenwelt
    -Always working on something...
    -The RepAdmin Active Directory Blog
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    Daniel333Daniel333 Member Posts: 2,077 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Windows :)
    -Daniel
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    rsutton wrote: »
    Notepad - couldn't live without!

    Prepare to be amazed: .:: NOTEPAD++ ::. ;)
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    rsuttonrsutton Member Posts: 1,029 ■■■■■□□□□□
    dynamik wrote: »
    Prepare to be amazed: .:: NOTEPAD++ ::. ;)

    The reason I like Notepad is mainly for it's simplicity and speed (and not adding any background code to text like some other editor). Why switch to NP++?
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    IT HAS TABS!!! :D

    Seriously though, it has tons of pretty cool features.

    By background code, are you referring to the beautiful way Word destroys text files? This doesn't do that. I use it for nearly all of my coding.
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    rsuttonrsutton Member Posts: 1,029 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Tabs sounds nice, I will check it out.
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    astorrsastorrs Member Posts: 3,139 ■■■■■■□□□□
    rsutton wrote: »
    The reason I like Notepad is mainly for it's simplicity and speed (and not adding any background code to text like some other editor). Why switch to NP++?
    Then try Notepad2, still lean and clean. :)
    twitter: @astorrs
    profile: linkedin.com/in/astorrs
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    undomielundomiel Member Posts: 2,818
    Opera Browser | Faster & safer Internet | Free Download
    Jumping on the IT blogging band wagon -- http://www.jefferyland.com/
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    HeroPsychoHeroPsycho Inactive Imported Users Posts: 1,940
    PowerShell
    Good luck to all!
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    ClaymooreClaymoore Member Posts: 1,637
    HeroPsycho wrote: »
    PowerShell

    I knew you would say that.

    +1 for PowerShell. Can't live without it as an Exchange admin, but why would you want to?
    Clay Moore's Blog
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    NetAdmin2436NetAdmin2436 Member Posts: 1,076
    bginfo
    Lantricks
    Treesize
    UBCD
    hijackthis
    Yahoo Messenger ....Hey, do you have a better way to talk to girls and check your stocks at the same time all while pretending your working? I didn't think so
    WIP: CCENT/CCNA (.....probably)
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    RevenueRevenue Member Posts: 130
    Altiris (Deployment Console, NS Server etc)
    Enterprise Vault\Double Take
    VMWARE
    HP-OV, BPM etc
    Treesize (Love this!)
    PSpad
    Bart\Win PE
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    I used Notepad++ for my C++ class. I loved it!
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    HeroPsychoHeroPsycho Inactive Imported Users Posts: 1,940
    Claymoore wrote: »
    I knew you would say that.

    Someone already said VMware... icon_lol.gif
    Good luck to all!
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    binarysoulbinarysoul Member Posts: 993
    M$ PortQry. It's an awesome tool that lets you know which ports are up and listening.
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    bencairneybencairney Member Posts: 76 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Citrix Presentation Server/Xen App
    Citrix Xen Desktop
    Citrix Xen Server
    Citrix Access Gateway/NetScaler

    Tivoli Storage Mgr
    Lotus Notes/Domino Server
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    blargoeblargoe Member Posts: 4,174 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Powershell
    Visio
    Hyena
    EventCombMT
    WDS
    Desktop Authority
    IT guy since 12/00

    Recent: 11/2019 - RHCSA (RHEL 7); 2/2019 - Updated VCP to 6.5 (just a few days before VMware discontinued the re-cert policy...)
    Working on: RHCE/Ansible
    Future: Probably continued Red Hat Immersion, Possibly VCAP Design, or maybe a completely different path. Depends on job demands...
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    RTmarcRTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
    SyncBack is one that I use quite frequently.

    Centennial Discovery for hardware/software auditing (software asset manangement).

    SolarWinds for network monitoring

    SolarWinds [SIZE=-1]T.F.T.P. server[/SIZE]

    Cisco Network Assistant

    Angry IP Scanner

    Pretty well the entire Systernals suite (FileMon, RegMon, BGInfo, NewSID)

    Snipping Tool (Vista, Win7) or SnagIt (XP)

    Camtasia

    VMware goes without saying.

    Alcohol 120% (burning and ripping)
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    RTmarcRTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
    AxCrypt

    Eraser
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    NightShade03NightShade03 Member Posts: 1,383 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Nmap

    +1 Visio

    Paros (great for troubleshooting web filter issues)

    Netstumbler

    SCCM/SSCM Console

    Nessus

    CDBurnerXP

    +1 Notepad++
    Modular Learning - Learn Something New

    SE Notebook
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    ally_ukally_uk Member Posts: 1,145 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Webmin The swiss army knife of setting up and administrating a Linux server for Non UNIX vets.
    Microsoft's strategy to conquer the I.T industry

    " Embrace, evolve, extinguish "
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