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BlooDBatH

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Good day,

Could any body please list some or any essential software that would help improve the work flow of a network/ systems administrator... Any type of software that would help... Also please if possible state whether it is freeware or not...

thanks in advance.
 
BlooDBatH said:
Good day,

Could any body please list some or any essential software that would help improve the work flow of a network/ systems administrator... Any type of software that would help... Also please if possible state whether it is freeware or not...

thanks in advance.
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I'm quite interested to see what suggestions come up here as i am a Junior Network Admin and often wonder what all is out there...

A program that I use to monitor my various sites is "Axence NetTools" http://www.axencesoftware.com/index.php
This is a free software whereby you just provide an email address and seconds later they email you a license key. This program has many features and a pretty easy to use GUI...
 
Things I use or have used:

SysAid for creating a ticketing system - http://www.ilient.com/ - free. Didn't work so well at my company, so I decided to remove it.
Spiceworks for inventory management - http://www.spiceworks.com/ - free
LANSweeper for auditing/inventory management - http://www.lansweeper.com/ - not free, but oh so worth the money. 30 day trial. Better than Spiceworks.
DokuWiki for documenting your environment - http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki - free. Busy creating a wiki for my company as I type.
mRemoteNG for RDP & VNC sessions - www.mremoteng.org/ - free.

Netscan for scanning IP ranges - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/ - free.
TightVNC or RealVNC for connecting to remote computers - www.tightvnc.com/, http://www.realvnc.com/ - free.
 
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carstensdj said:
I'm quite interested to see what suggestions come up here as i am a Junior Network Admin and often wonder what all is out there...

A program that I use to monitor my various sites is "Axence NetTools" http://www.axencesoftware.com/index.php
This is a free software whereby you just provide an email address and seconds later they email you a license key. This program has many features and a pretty easy to use GUI...
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Yes that is why i created this thread, I too have wondered what software the guys are using and so on. thanks for your input!
 
hungrybeaver said:
Things I use or have used:

SysAid for creating a ticketing system - http://www.ilient.com/ - free. Didn't work so well at my company, so I decided to remove it.
Spiceworks for inventory management - http://www.spiceworks.com/ - free
LANSweeper for auditing/inventory management - http://www.lansweeper.com/ - not free, but oh so worth the money. 30 day trial. Better than Spiceworks.
DokuWiki for documenting your environment - http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki - free. Busy creating a wiki for my company as I type.
mRemoteNG for RDP & VNC sessions - www.mremoteng.org/ - free.

Netscan for scanning IP ranges - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/ - free.
TightVNC or RealVNC for connecting to remote computers - www.tightvnc.com/, http://www.realvnc.com/ - free.
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Thank you so much! this is what I am talking about!

My Company is using Spiceworks, I am really gonna try LANSweeper! If there is anyone with some more input please do share!
 
BlooDBatH said:
Yes that is why i created this thread, I too have wondered what software the guys are using and so on. thanks for your input!
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BlooDBatH said:
Thank you so much! this is what I am talking about!

My Company is using Spiceworks, I am really gonna try LANSweeper! If there is anyone with some more input please do share!
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Another piece of software that we use, which is browser based is Nagios: http://www.nagios.org/

We have a fairly large WAN that spans across the Western Cape, and find this rather useful to quickly diagnose where problems on the network might lie.
 
Nmap for network Scanning.
Nagios for Monitoring your infrastructure.
ActiveColab is a brilliant ticketing system.
Mantis is another brilliant ticketing system if you like to tinker.
Wireshark for packet filtering.
Esxi for VM's and vsphere to manage it.
VNC, RDP, Logmein, Teamviewer for remote administratrion.
And any of the solarwinds products that applies to your need.

Thats all I can thing of the top of my head.

Be careful when using webmin it is incredibly insecure with allot of known exploits.
 
carstensdj said:
Another piece of software that we use, which is browser based is Nagios: http://www.nagios.org/

We have a fairly large WAN that spans across the Western Cape, and find this rather useful to quickly diagnose where problems on the network might lie.
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Thanks for your input carstensdj

We also have a fairly Large WAN, Offices located in Cape Town, Gauteng and Mpumalanga so this is so helpful to me new to the company and all and this is really helping me.... I really appreciate every ones input!
 
BlooDBatH said:
Thanks for your input carstensdj

We also have a fairly Large WAN, Offices located in Cape Town, Gauteng and Mpumalanga so this is so helpful to me new to the company and all and this is really helping me.... I really appreciate every ones input!
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Hey no probs dude.

I started at my current company in Oct 2010. The company is 3yrs old this year, so still young, but growing VERY quickly.

I was their first qualified IT person and also had to scramble around finding networking and IT softwares for them to better the Technical/IT side of the business. I have implemented quite abit for them, but still have A LOT to learn myself...
 
Just my 0.02c

Most major RAID hardware vendors have software for monitoring their RAID controllers. It is worth it to install that and set it up to send an email to [email protected] should a hard drive fail.

Usually most inexperienced network admins overlook the importance of this, and get serious flak when it's too late.
 
douglash24 said:
K9 Security - can block all sites, across browser platforms.
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Smoothwall + URL Filter / Dansguardian can do the same job pretty well - for free :D

Most major Linux distros who utilizes the Squid caching daemon also can make use of Dansguardian or URL Filter.

Worth to have, and watch the lusers try accessing porn.com without any success :twisted: :D
 
That's so stupid. Why would you use a filter that applies to only one web web browser?
 
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