New Laptop - Telecom software recomendations?

[568B]

I am getting a new laptop with Windows 7. I've been using ProComm and Hyper Terminal to talk to Option 11's, routers and such. These just seem so dated and Hyper Terminal isn’t even on Windows 7. I heard ProComm hasn’t been supported for sometime.

Is there a new communications program out there?

Thank you.

 

[GHTROUT]

I use this, but I still use Procomm on win7 as well:

http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html

SecureCRT connects to many other protocols. It is the most universal client I can think of.

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[Tman45]

Yes Procomm is fine on Win7 (if you want to use your scripting) or I just use PuTTY - its free and does a log file for all my sessions.

SecureCRT is good from what I hear, but I am fine with what I have.

 

[allenmac]

I use both SecureCRT (Terminal) and SecureFX (FTP) all the time for various CS1000 maintenance/admin tasks.

 

[568B]

Thanks all for your advice. I did download the free 30 day version of Secure CRT and it is working great. Will be purchasing it.

 

[janaya]

If you use Win7 32-bit you should have no issues with any of the applications. That is what I went to and can use all Nortel (Avaya Blue) applications with no issue.

 

[KillianK]

I use procomm and most customers have putty installed on there desk tops for remote support. A lot of our engineers use Reflections also

 

[Tman45]

The only bummer with Procomm is no SSH support

On 7.5 security domain we can't telnet any longer ... no more Procomm scripting for me.

 

[KillianK]

@Tman45

Have a look at this thread for SSH workaround

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=6420

 

[oicu2]

I would highly recommend a terminal program called ZOC--
by far the best I have used.

 

[edkender]

secure CRT

 

[Seven89]

SecureCRT is the best hands down. SSH2 supported. The list of features cant be beat. For programing (scripting) any ActiveX language will do (Perl, JavaScript, VBScript, and now Python) makes it the most versatile client in the market...and I look for up and coming clients..and they are not even in the same league. It also runs on MAC and Linux distributions now. Their forum has so much user input and the technical support rocks. They followup fast..its not a dead forum or less then a 1000. Where many others can only show version 2.2...they are up there and getting better. The price is a bit high..but worth it. Only Hummingbird Exceed was as expensive and complex...but sucked for programing options and included its own cygwin environment.

Porting Procom scripts to VBScript is not to difficult.

 

[joeb5110]

It's an old post, you've probably settled on a program by now. But if not, try Zoc (emtec.com).
It used REXX, which is an old but easy to understand scripting language, in addition to its own proprietary script commands. This program has been gold for me, since Procomm isn't developed and doesn't have SSH support, which rules around here.

 

[BrokenRecord2]

I use ZOC and works great for me.

FYI...You can enable telnet on the PBX and signaling servers to use Procomm again.

5.4. Enabling Insecure Shell Access
For the integration to be successful between the CS1000 and AppManager, the Telnet Service on CS1000 has to be turned on. This is because AppManager does not support Secure Shell (SSH) access and requires Telnet access.

To enable Telnet, which is part of the insecure Shell access on SS: Log in to the Linux-based Signalling Server and issue the following command,
[admin@cpppm3 ~]$ harden telnet on

To enable Telnet, which is part of the insecure Shell access on CS1000: Log in to CS1000 command line and issue the following command from overlay LD 117,
>ld 117
=> ENL SHELLS INSECURE

 

[curtismo]

Other useful items to have on your telecom laptop:

- TFTP server - I have Solarwinds Engineer's toolset that has a TFTP server included with the tools (SNMP MIB browser, Ping/traceroute utilities, etc.) They also have a free TFTP download if you don't have the purchased Toolset.

- FTP server - I call this the quick and dirty file transfer utility. Almost all OSs have an FTP client - Windows XP, Vista, 7, Linux, mainframe, PDT, etc. FileZilla is free.

 

[janaya]

look at mremote. it is a putty type product that is free and pretty easy to use.

 

[568B]

Thanks to all for your support. I have installed SecureCRT and it has done everything I needed.