Monthly Archives: March 2012

SecureCRT sending commands to multiple sessions.

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I came across this in secureCRT and thought I would share it.

When labing things up (and indeed on real networks), there are times when you need to send the same command to multiple devices. you can of course copy and paste between the sessions but what about if you want to past the exact same block of configuration to 20 devices, or just want to do something simple like save the running configuration on your devices in you lab before you close down?

Well SecureCRT has a nice little feature to do this, so before enabled secure CRT looks much like below, as you can see I have several tabs open.

Default SecureCRT Window

However by going in to the view menu up the top there is a option to enable the “chat window”, this will bring up an extra panel at the bottom of the screen. Then by right clicking in this new panel you can enable the “send chat to all tabs” option as shown below.

Chat window enabled

Now any command typed in the chat window will be sent to all devices. Commands typed in the main terminal are still only sent to a single device.

What would be even nicer is if you could highlight multiple tabs and have the commands only sent to those terminal sessions. At the moment it is an all or nothing solution, maybe I will go suggest it to them as an improvement for future versions 🙂

The more I use CRT the more I like it, written quite a few scripts for it now, if you know any VB script or Java you can pretty much do what ever you like as SecureCRT has a nice simple API in to it.

I am finally moving house this week, so after that should have more time to post on here, and will take some of the script I have and tidy them up and post them for people.

Take care

DevilWAH

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Raspberry Pi

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I am sure a lot of you have hear about these, I have been trying to get one since the day it was released but still in the queue. http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Response was overwhelming and took down the sites of distributes, and this is what it is all about!

While it may not look much this is a 700mhz ARM processor, can play back Video at HD, with USB, Ethernet, HDMI output + more all on a board the size of a credit card, and for the sum of £22 ($30ish).  Perfect for a home brew media server or web server. or indeed many other hobby projects.

But it gets better the whole purpose behind this is to encourage kids to get in to programming. There are a lot of kids around that can use computers but as computers get easier to use, less of them a delving behind the screens to see how they work and more importantly how to make them work. So later in the year they will be releasing them in to the schools and collages. pre installed with tools and languages for the kids to have a play on.

One thing that hasn’t been widely covered is that when you purchase one you will be able to chose to purchase an additional unit that will be donated on your behalf to a school or other good cause. I think its a great idea, and while I will be getting one or two to play with over the next few weeks I hope for my own enjoyment and leaning experience. I hope the developers do see there dream bear fruit and get taken up by the schools and colleges to encourage the next round of IT stars.

I would encourage any one who is thinking of purchasing one to remember that they are a charity, and while the have produced something that many of us will get enjoyment from. That where possible we should try to feed back and encourage there idea of getting them in every school and collage in the country.

As soon as I get my hands on one I will be updating this blog, who knows in a month or two it might well be running from one 🙂

DevilWAH

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