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Besides a number of the tools already mentioned, I have installed Cygwin on my machine to get to some of the tools that are normally only available in a linux/unix based environment.In that...
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Putty.exe for connecting to gear.Packet-tracer and capture commands in ASA. Packet-tracer alone is enough reason to dump FWSM and migrate to ASA.Wireshark for looking at the captures.3CDaemon...
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Besides our core Orion Suite, we also use Compuware APM, DC RUM and DynaTrace.
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Nothing beats my old Spectrum +3, with 128k disc drive!!! I know, im cool !!! grantallenby
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Solarwinds NPM, NCM, Engineer's Toolset (Mainly SNMP Tools, Discovery, Sonar), Atlas, Syslog & Trap Viewers,NeDi (Even our old version still rocks), Our IPAM is Adonis, Cisco Prime(or NCS for...
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I like SoftPerfect Network Scanner. I use WireShark/TShark heavily. There's of course the usual : ping, tracert, nslookup... Putty and FileZilla (when I'm too lazy to ftp from the command line...) And,...
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I live my nightmare everyday. I suffer from the "Cassandra Syndrome" at my company. I am the Availability Manager (within the ITIL framework) and I am not a Network Engineer, nor do I have any control...
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Most of my items are already covered by the posters above. I will second mRemoteNG, a great putty / rdp connection tool that I always use.
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My worst was probably 12 24-port 10mb hubs connected in series.
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I use a lot of the tools mentionned above, but I also use Fing by overlook... It is a simple network scanner that works well and can be automated/scripted
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Solarwinds suite, Angry IP scanner, putty, notepad++, snipping tool, SysInternals (mainly process explorer), remote desktop connection manager, goto meeting, team viewer, Portable apps, ninite app...
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I use a variety of the tools in the Engineer's tool-set. I've recently started using jperf for performance testing. Wireshark.DNSBenchmark. Can identify problems with dns...
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Now with smart watches from the likes of samsung/apple. Will are wrists start beeping if something goes down, flick of the wrist, check some stats and remote reboot. Would make life easier grantallenby
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Turn it off, then turn it back on again.
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Indeed! For me, everything else simply supplements, or leads to, Wireshark
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On-site contract to 'improve and enhance the cabling infrastructure' at a federal agency... 6 LAN closets... all similar to this (not my photo, google image search): the manager at that location was...
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I'm more on the 'maintain the monitoring tool' side now, but when I was in the admin side, I was a huge supporter of notepad++, securecrt, filezilla, wireshark, and the engineer's toolset
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MS tools - pinf, tracert, nslookup. ETS - DNS analyzer, SPM, MIB walk and Browse. Wireshark, MS Network Monotor, MS Message Analyzer (for payload). NCM - golden for seeing what happenend and how to fix...
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I see anything that can be considered reliable will be bought by the ISPs and then that will filter its way down. With that in mind, if the sales of the Nexus 9000 platform are solid, I think the...
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nmap is usually my first stop in diagnosing a problem, then native Windows tools like netstat and nbtstat come in handy. I spend a lot of time in vSphere, so RVTools gets heavy airplay. esxtop, too. I...
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