As an Infrastructure Manager, you need access to all sorts of consoles, systems, and management software.  So many different connection methods and schemes… and so little time!!  It  really would be great if there was a tool that could consolidate and manage all your remote connections in one easy to use tool…

Well there is such a product!!

Remote Desktop Manager solves this problem in an easy to use fashion.  It even provides a full feature “Standard” version for free!!  (Who doesn’t like FREE?)

This tool provides me the ability to store connections with credentials, and covers such diverse connections including LogMeIn,  Vsphere Virtual Center, putty/telnet/ssh, WCP, RDP  and many others.  There is a wealth of plugins available, and if you purchase the full product (Enterprise) for $49/each you will get even more features!

I highly recommend Remote Desktop Manager.   Be sure to check out the link above for further details!

In my role as an automation test engineer, I was always relying on good old-fashioned terminal app on my linux or Mac platform. Sometimes multiple windows were needed to be able to evaluate and watch log output when running tests.

The other day while browsing LifeHacker, I came across this high powered Terminal Emulator for Linux. Terminator is free, and it allows you to open several terminal sessions grouped in one window. It was simple to install on my Ubuntu sandbox machine, and is a great benefit for anyone who needs to be able to monitor several activities at once. I hope you find it as helpful as I have!

You can find the LifeHacker story at this link. The app installation info and download info can be found here. If you are running a Mac, you need to be using the Fink project. Details can be found on the download page.

Happy Terminating…

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