Tools you normaly use in life work

NullCodeNullCode Member Posts: 72 ■■□□□□□□□□
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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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  • Panzer919Panzer919 Member Posts: 462
    These are my main tools other than Cisco Press and Google :)

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

    I think “very senior” gets stuck in there because the last six yahoos that applied for the position couldn’t tell a packet from a Snickers bar.

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  • shodownshodown Member Posts: 2,271
    Secure CRT
    Notepad++
    Kiwi Syslog
    Kiwi Cat Tools
    ASDM
    CCA config Assistant
    various VNC/RDP clients
    Google
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  • creamy_stewcreamy_stew Member Posts: 406 ■■■□□□□□□□
    - ping
    - tracer(ou)t(e)
    - arp
    - netstat
    - nmap
    - wireshark
    - cacti
    - 3Cdaemon
    - Kiwi Cattools
    - Kiwi syslog
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    [X] IINS
    [ ] CCDA
    [ ] DCICT
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  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    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.
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  • NetwurkNetwurk Member Posts: 1,155 ■■■■■□□□□□
    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

    :)
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  • johnwest43johnwest43 Member Posts: 294
    Cat5 cable tester.
    Those cute little blinky lights on routers and switches.
    Ping.
    Wireshark.
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  • mzinzmzinz Member Posts: 328
    What do you guys use for ICMP subnet scanning? I have been using "Angry IP Scanner", but it is slow.

    Any recommendations?
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  • networker050184networker050184 Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
    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.
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  • MonkerzMonkerz Member Posts: 842
    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.
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  • CucumberCucumber Member Posts: 192
    ping
    tracert (Windows), traceroute -I (UNIX)
    solarwinds
    CRT (with automated scripts)
    Kiwi Syslogd EDIT: Syslogd is a life saver when working with PIXes
    wireshark
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  • gaby_978gaby_978 Member Posts: 222
    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*
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  • JSKJSK Member Posts: 166
    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
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  • miller811miller811 Member Posts: 897
    ping
    pingpath
    traceroute
    arp
    NetQoS
    HP NAS
    putty
    ASDM
    CSM
    WCS
    I don't claim to be an expert, but I sure would like to become one someday.

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  • NullCodeNullCode Member Posts: 72 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I updated the 1st post.
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  • Forsaken_GAForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024
    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.
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  • malwethmalweth Member Posts: 42 ■■□□□□□□□□
    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). 
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  • chmorinchmorin Member Posts: 1,446 ■■■■■□□□□□
    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.
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  • SettSett Member Posts: 187
    I find MTR/WinMTR very useful.
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  • MonkerzMonkerz Member Posts: 842
    Don't forget OpUtils 5 for free bandwidth utilization monitoring.
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  • ConstantlyLearningConstantlyLearning Member Posts: 445
    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.
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