Tools

There are lots of tools that sys admins and engineers use on a daily basis. I thought I’d list a few here that might help others. I tried to keep this list very general that can help in a wide variety of tasks, nothing too specialized. This list is nowhere near complete, I could sit here all day and add stuff. These are just a few I like to keep handy that you might find useful in your jobs. Please comment if you have any favorites you like that I didn’t add:

VMware PowerCLI
vEcoShell
Fiddler2
WinSCP
Wireshark
Nmap
Zenmap
Putty
Netscan
OpenSSL
SSLDigger
SysInternals Tools
WhosOn
Filezilla
DAEMON Tools Lite
IMGBurn
QueueExplorer
MSMQ First Aid Kit
WinRAR
Beyond Compare
Log Parser
Process Explorer
Process Monitor
TCPView
Royal TS
UltraMON
AutoHotKey
Camtasia
SnagIt
SpaceMonger
LTFViewer (Large Text File Viewer)
NotePad++
Solarwinds Free Tools
Fping
ControlUp
1-4a Rename
Flash Renamer
Unlocker
FileASSASSIN
RegScanner
BitKinex WebDAV Client
LDAP Browser

FireFox Addons
AdBlock Plus
FireBug
FlashBlock
IE Tab 2
Image-Show-Hide
Download Statusbar
Live HTTP Headers
HTTPFox
TinEye
User Agent Switcher
DownloadHelper
Screengrab
Greasemonkey
NoScript
Image Preview
Add-on Compatibility Reporter

Chrome Extensions
AdBlock
Hover Zoom
Chrome Toolbox (by Google)
MeasureIt!
Screen Capture (by Google)
EXIF Viewer

Web Based Tools
DNSStuff.com
SSL Checker
SSL Weak Ciphers Test
UITest.com
W3C Tools
HTTP Request Viewer
Website Grader
Free Instant SSL Certs
Another Free Instant SSL Cert site

  1. August 17th, 2011 at 19:47 | #1

    Dude, what a great list of tools!! I have most but you have a few I don’t and that is killer!!

  2. August 30th, 2011 at 05:57 | #2

    @chad

    Thanks Chad!

  3. September 12th, 2012 at 09:44 | #3

    I’m so downloading “Measure It” for Google Chrome!

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