
SecureCRT and SuperPutty: Terminal Tools Every Network Engineer Should Know
SecureCRT and SuperPutty: Terminal Tools Every Network Engineer Should Know If you’ve been doing network engineering for more than a few years, you’ve probably spent thousands of hours inside a terminal client. SSH into a switch, run some show commands, make a change, move to the next device. It’s the most repetitive workflow in the job — and the right tool makes it significantly less painful. Most engineers start with PuTTY. It works, it’s free, and it does what it says. But there are two tools that take the terminal workflow from functional to genuinely efficient: SecureCRT (the professional standard) and SuperPutty (the free upgrade that PuTTY users don’t know they need). ...