Coolest Utilities You Use At Work

I was just wondering what cool utilities all of you out there use at work to help do your job better. There's one utility here at work that is pretty cool, it's called blat. We use blat here at work within scripts to email our notification email addresses for the sys. admins. This of course is a windows utility. So post your coolest little utilites that you couldn't live without at work along with the web link so that we can all share in their usefulness.

Hyena is another one that windows admins should check out. It is a all-in-one admin tool for windows administrators. It gives the user a one window view to all the NT Domain resources.

Program - BLAT
Web Link - http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html
Used as a command line smtp email agent

Program - Hyena
Web Link - http://www.systemtools.com/hyena

I couldn't function properly with out my Perl interpreter :D
i'm always writing neat lil' toolz that help on keystrokes...

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Originally posted here by d0ppelg@nger
I was just wondering what cool utilities all of you out there use at work to help do your job better. There's one utility here at work that is pretty cool, it's called blat. We use blat here at work within scripts to email our notification email addresses for the sys. admins. This of course is a windows utility. So post your coolest little utilites that you couldn't live without at work along with the web link so that we can all share in their usefulness.

Hyena is another one that windows admins should check out. It is a all-in-one admin tool for windows administrators. It gives the user a one window view to all the NT Domain resources.

Program - BLAT
Web Link - http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html
Used as a command line smtp email agent

Program - Hyena
Web Link - http://www.systemtools.com/hyena

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I very much agree about Hyena! It's REALLY a wonderfull tool! Not that you can't do the same things without it, but everything is regrouped at one place, in a well designed/logical manner. Once you've tried it, it's hard to go without it!

Ammo

Another good NT Domain Admin utiltity is from DameWare. It's as good or better than Hyena in some respects.

http://www.dameware.com/

Well I am more of a linux kinda guy myself since I am a unix sysadmin but as far as windows tools go, I like

gvim --http://www.vim.org/
windows vi editor port
servers alive --http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/
check status of network services
daSniff --http://demosten.com/dasniff/
sniffing packets from rules that are set (useful for troubleshooting network problems)

That's a few tools I find useful for windows.

My most important tool on windows is putte.exe so i can connect to my linux servers.

My most important tool on linux is SUDO, as it makes life for an admin very easy. Also another important tool is vi. I use it on a daily basis. And not to forget ssh. These are my most important everday tools.

Cheers.

I was not wanting to restrict utilities to just the windows OS. *NIX utilities are fair game also....

Some other utilities that are a must for *nix admins.

NMap - Port Scanner
http://www.insecure.org/

Nessus - Security Scanner
http://www.nessus.com/

Kismet - Wireless AP Sniffer
http://www.kismetwireless.net/

SWATCH - Simple Log Watcher (One of many excellent log watchers for *nix)
http://swatch.sourceforge.net/

Yeah i gotta agree there, Nmap is a quality program. And insecure.org is an excellent website.

While we are on the subject (sorta) on NMap i was reading a paper at insecure.org today on idle-scanning it is interesting none the less so here a link http://www.insecure.org/nmap/idlescan.html

NetCat is also a cool tool and hping2 is a cool packet genarator, Don (i think it was Don)wrote a really good tutorial on hping2 search the forms if you would like a read at it

Due to early diagnosis and monitoring the status of our WAN I use Scotty/Tkined running on a dedicated Linux-Box since a couple of years. Have a look here: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/

And @instronics I use putty.exe everyday too.

i personally use ghostcast server... do alot of ghosting at work...

it's not that cool of a tool... but my job is boring...

ntop
ipaudit
ettercap
ethereal
tcpdump
big brother
languard network scanner
nessus
nmap.. of course.
aatools.. sometimes
Norton Ghost (can really save yer ass)
arpwatch --- very nice util to watch mac address changes on the network

those are just a few of the programs I use.

pftop is nice also if you use PF on OpenBSD

I also use nagios to monitor the network (alternative to big brother).

Ammo

I forgot the windows resource kits for NT/2k

NMap. Snort. LaBrea. etc. etc.

Because all of the machines at work are Windows machines (XP/NT/2000), I use PuTTY to SSH into my Linux box at home.

I also use Webmin sometimes, however I never leave the Webmin port open (10000). WHen I want to use it, I SSH into my box and a new rule to IPTABLES, and then when I am done, I remove the rule.

I can´t write about tools I use at work just because I don´t have this kind of job (no job at all, probably changin in a couple of months). So, I will just mention 3 tools I am very fond of:
1) netcat :) connects everything to everything
2) lsof= shows all files that are open at the moment.all that your users are trying to hide from you..
3) task, a forensic tool. Ok, I admit: I began reading the documentation, and haven´t needed it yet (I think i will never do). Anyway, seems fun =).
1 and 3 can be find here: www.atstake.com , under research/tools . lsof is very likely to be found in a linux distribution. Don´t ask me the package, I never bothered to know.. :/

Web Programmer so I use stuff like Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop, Homesite, Asp.net Matrix.
Putty for the obvious, Any FTP program I can get my hands on rapidly,
For web diagnosis I use alot of vulnerability checks with N-Secure.
Got plenty of browsers to check compatibility.
(mozilla 1.3, ie 3-6, netscape 4.83 - 7, opera 5 and 7)
Secondary linux box for checking linux code, run my own servers ( apache, php, mysql,sqlserver, iis, asp) all that stuff.
Most of this is pretty mainstream so I didn't link to any of it.

Yes of course putty is also my favourite. But other than that I use Languard Network Scanner from http://www.languard.com/ and Ethereal from http://www.ethereal.com/ for real hardcore problem solving and last but not least I just love autoexpect in *nix one can do wonders with it.

Gabbar :-)

Yes i use languard at some lan parties i do with my friends, but i close it when we play games.

Lots of the tools I regularly use have already been mentioned, but a couple that haven't:

BASH----c'mon, isn't this the most important one of all? :D
Snort with SnortSnarf

HP OpenView Network Node Manager with CiscoWorks 2000

Packetshaper by Packeteer

And- of course- MRTG

Some of the tools I use both at work and at home.

• Dsniff
• Nmap and Nmapwin
• p0f
• Nessus
• Saint
• Tripwire (1|2)
• GFI
• AntiSniff
• Ethereal
• Ghost
• ZENWorks
• IBM Director

~micael