Must-know products for sys admins: Add yours

binarysoul

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.

sagewalkinthere

Acronis True Image - good stuff
Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D

mikez

RealVNC
Wireshark

Forsaken_GA

In the unix admin realm -

rsync (who needs veritas, acronis, or ghost?)
ssh
awk
sed
some form of programming/scripting

RTmarc

Dameware
Putty
SamSpade

dynamik

KeePass Password Safe
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux

rsutton

I would say the biggest ones for me are:
Sysinternals tools
Wireshark
Ping/Tracert
NMAP
Notepad - couldn't live without!
Fluke

cheguaro

VMWare

ProceXP

TCPView

msteinhilber

Excel - I've worked with too many admins over the years that couldn't go beyond basics (entering data and formatting cells basically).

Ashenwelt

WhatsUpGold
ManageEngine

Managment tools are priceless.... for the admin.

Daniel333

Windows

dynamik

rsutton wrote: »

Notepad - couldn't live without!

Prepare to be amazed: .:: NOTEPAD++ ::.

rsutton

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++?

dynamik

IT HAS TABS!!!

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.

rsutton

Tabs sounds nice, I will check it out.

astorrs

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.

undomiel

Opera Browser | Faster & safer Internet | Free Download

HeroPsycho

PowerShell

Claymoore

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?

NetAdmin2436

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

Revenue

Altiris (Deployment Console, NS Server etc)
Enterprise Vault\Double Take
VMWARE
HP-OV, BPM etc
Treesize (Love this!)
PSpad
Bart\Win PE

veritas_libertas

I used Notepad++ for my C++ class. I loved it!

HeroPsycho

Claymoore wrote: »

I knew you would say that.

Someone already said VMware...

binarysoul

M$ PortQry. It's an awesome tool that lets you know which ports are up and listening.

bencairney

Citrix Presentation Server/Xen App
Citrix Xen Desktop
Citrix Xen Server
Citrix Access Gateway/NetScaler

Tivoli Storage Mgr
Lotus Notes/Domino Server

blargoe

Powershell
Visio
Hyena
EventCombMT
WDS
Desktop Authority

RTmarc

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)

RTmarc

AxCrypt

Eraser

NightShade03

Nmap

+1 Visio

Paros (great for troubleshooting web filter issues)

Netstumbler

SCCM/SSCM Console

Nessus

CDBurnerXP

+1 Notepad++

ally_uk

Webmin The swiss army knife of setting up and administrating a Linux server for Non UNIX vets.