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Mac OS X to administer Cisco gear.

edwardwitte
Level 1
Level 1

I have had Macs for a while now but never used them for working with Cisco routers and switches before.

I was wondering if anyone would like to share their OS X rig for the task. What SFTP , SCP servers for moving configs, any special terminal emulators of choice, things like that?

Thanks,

Ed

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steve.busby
Level 5
Level 5

I started with a Apple PowerBook 3 years ago and now use a MacBook Pro.

For telnet/ssh management (for neary 500 devices) I use Jellyfissh.

http://www.grepsoft.net/

TFTP/FTP image distribution works perfectly with the built in TFTP/FTP servers. Can't say I've had to use SFTP though.

Console access is with a Keyspan USA-19HS USB/Serial converter and zterm. Yeah--zterm, I tried minicom, in fact there's probably an old how-to I referenced in these forums. But with zterm, I don't have to load ports or the like.

http://www.keyspan.com

http://homepage.mac.com/dalverson/zterm/

For the numerous Cisco web interfaces that seem to only accept Windows and IE, I usually use Codeweaver's Crossover Mac or for the heavy-weight java pages I use an XP image in Parallels.

HTH

Steve

mike-petersen
Level 1
Level 1

Terminal Emulator - Zterm - http://homepage.mac.com/dalverson/zterm/

I connect to my Mac either via a serial port (if I'm on an Xserve) or via a USB-Serial adaptor like this one:

http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa19hs/

Most often though I setup ssh on the Cisco equipment and connect that way with Apple's Terminal app.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

mikeP

yjdabear
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

SFTP and SCP both come with OpenSSH that's available out-of-the-box on OS X when you choose to install the BSD sub-system.

As far as terminal emulations, this discussion pretty much covers the gamut of possibilities:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061109133825654

There's this GUI tool for examining/configuring a lot of Cisco devices that had a lot of promise, though perpetual lack of testing on the cat6k is a big miss.

http://www.telconi.com/mac.html

timm.benkula
Level 1
Level 1

A good program for managing tftp on the Mac can be downloaded at:

http://ww2.unime.it/flr/tftpserver/TftpServer.dmg

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