Tools you normaly use in life work

Hi guys,

I just wanted to start a topic about the tools you normaly use in troubleshooting or maintenance scenarios.
Here is what we have till now:

ARP
CCA config Assistant
CSM
Cacti
Cat5 cable tester.
Cisco ASDM
CNA
Dell Silverback (horrible)
GNS3
HP NAS
Kiwi Cat Tools
Kiwi Syslog
Logmein
Mikogo
NMAP
NetQoS
Netstat
Nimsoft (will be replacing Dell Silverback soon )
Notepad++
Ping
Pingpath
Ping Plotter
Putty
Secure CRT
Solarwinds
Spectrum
Synmail
TFTPD32
TeamViewer
Traceroute
WCS
Wireshark

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Panzer919

These are my main tools other than Cisco Press and Google

Ping Plotter
Putty
Secure CRT
Cisco ASDM
GNS3
Ping
Tracert
Solarwinds
TFTPD32

shodown

Secure CRT
Notepad++
Kiwi Syslog
Kiwi Cat Tools
ASDM
CCA config Assistant
various VNC/RDP clients
Google
Cisco Systems, Inc
1800-553-2447

creamy_stew

- ping
- tracer(ou)t(e)
- arp
- netstat
- nmap
- wireshark
- cacti
- 3Cdaemon
- Kiwi Cattools
- Kiwi syslog

Forsaken_GA

the wireshark gets honorable mention, but the lack of the mention of tcpdump is fail!

bad netengys, no cookie!

besides others that are mentioned here, I spend alot of time with nagios, solarwinds orion, rancid, and various netflow tools like flow-tools and nfsen. I also make extensive use of awk and sed for pulling and preparing data from log files. I should probably just say any tool thats useful to a netengy available in your common linux distribution, I make use of.

Netwurk

cool topic

ping (almost all platforms)
traceroute (tracert for dos/windows)
arp (dos/windows and unix/linux, use show arp with IOS)

OK, I'm tired from typing out commands

johnwest43

Cat5 cable tester.
Those cute little blinky lights on routers and switches.
Ping.
Wireshark.

mzinz

What do you guys use for ICMP subnet scanning? I have been using "Angry IP Scanner", but it is slow.

Any recommendations?

networker050184

mzinz wrote: »

What do you guys use for ICMP subnet scanning? I have been using "Angry IP Scanner", but it is slow.

Any recommendations?

I usually just use NMAP from the CLI.

Monkerz

mzinz wrote: »

What do you guys use for ICMP subnet scanning? I have been using "Angry IP Scanner", but it is slow.

Any recommendations?

It is probably slow because the default maximum thread count is 20. I change mine to 300 and it scans a class C subnet in 3 seconds.

Cucumber

ping
tracert (Windows), traceroute -I (UNIX)
solarwinds
CRT (with automated scripts)
Kiwi Syslogd EDIT: Syslogd is a life saver when working with PIXes
wireshark

gaby_978

I work in a Managed Services NOC. Here are some of the tools we use (btw most of them suck

).

- Ping
- Traceroute
- Spectrum
- Dell Silverback (horrible)
- Nimsoft ( will be replacing Dell Silverback soon

)
- Synmail
- Logmein
- ILO
- RDP
-Putty
- CRT
* maybe missed some others that I rearly use*

JSK

mzinz wrote: »

What do you guys use for ICMP subnet scanning? I have been using "Angry IP Scanner", but it is slow.

Any recommendations?

For ping sweeps I use Solarwinds IP address tracker. It's a free download.
Free IP Address Tracker from SolarWinds

miller811

ping
pingpath
traceroute
arp
NetQoS
HP NAS
putty
ASDM
CSM
WCS

NullCode

I updated the 1st post.

Forsaken_GA

Honestly, if you're compiling a list, it'd probably be most effective to point folks here:

Armory - Packet Life

Stretch has compiled a very comprehensive list of tools that it's worth a neteng's time to get to know.

malweth

There are others I seldom use (an snmp walker, for example). These ones are by far the most common: ping (of course), tftpd32, Wireshark, and Cisco debugs / show commands... I also can't forget hyperterminal!

Editpad for regular expressions... but not for network stuff (other than looking at configs off-line). Same goes for MS Office apps... they're irrelevant.

Packet Life is a good resource, but there are many apps listed and few are useful to me. The most important tool, by far, are Cisco Show / Debug commands. I often prefer to 'show ip packets' before setting up Wireshark. In the right circumstances, it shows you what's going on without having to actually find a hub and set up Wireshark (that's easier with a switch port, but not possible if you're going direct router-to-router).

chmorin

Network notepad: Network Notepad Homepage

Because it is easier than memorizing all of your WAN/LAN subnet addresses and great for quick visual representation of your network and if you need to get to a device, you can customize options to SSH, TELNET, or HTTP/s to them.

Sett

I find MTR/WinMTR very useful.

Monkerz

Don't forget OpUtils 5 for free bandwidth utilization monitoring.

ConstantlyLearning

networker050184 wrote: »

I usually just use NMAP from the CLI.

Yeah same, create a little batch script to run nmap with whatever options fit the bill, output to a file and email on completion.