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can anyone compare Putty SSH to SecureCRT SSH and give me your opinion?

i've been using SecureCRT (trial) for a few days and like it a lot but I know Putty is free. i have yet to try Putty. has anyone used both?

can anyone give me your Pros & Cons about these two SSH products before i go and spend money?

thanks.

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Network_Guru

I have not used SecurCRT, but Putty is free!
I set putty to automatically log all my sessions to a text file, so I have record of all inputs and outputs for each session.

branfarm

I've used both products and have to say that they are pretty evenly matched. The main reason I was attracted to SecureCRT was for the tabbed window feature. Honestly though, I find that I still go back to putty almost exclusively because I usually want my windows to be next to each while I'm working on something.

I will say that paying for software at least gets you support-- I currently have a problem with putty on one of my machines where anything but a clean session exit causes Putty to use 50% of my CPU. If that happened with SecureCRT I could send them a notice and they would figure out why it happens. With putty, I just have to deal with it.

In my opnion, you should try Putty yourself before you purchase a license for SecureCRT -- only you will decide what works best for you.

ecklerwr1

What he said (guru)... Putty is FREE.

drknight0

My $.02

for me ( Long time SecureCRT user ).

the features that I use most often:

session logging - as above putty and any other client worth anything has this feature

Scripting (I use CRT to run many of the network operation type tasks, configuration updates, backups, , etc) ... putty has this as well.

GUI menu, device grouping, etc., As I have a standard menu setup I can use this to deploy to a new Engineer and get them up and running quickly w/out them having to learn the naming scheme etc.

What are the features that you line in SCRT, maybe the putty users can respond in kind.

-DR

richard.john

Try to use Solar-PuTTY instead of Putty or SecureCRT. Solar-PuTTY is free, easy to use with nice interface and contains a lot of functionality (tabs, credential/session management, post-connections scripts, SSH/Telnet/SCP/SFTP/FTP support).

kellyju

So how can I get solar-putty to bring in all my settings in Putty? I have placed the solar-putty executable in the same directory as putty too.