SSH Clients - mRemoteNG

As we discussed on a previous post Putty is a great tool, but every time we want to connect using SSH, we need to type the IP address. If we manage 100s devices, then things are getting complicated. A good solution is Multi Putty Manager, where can add multiple devices in one interface. 

But on real life we also need to Remote Login to Windows Machines using RDP. mRemoteNG can manage both SSH and Remote Desktop sessions and can also support others, such as VNC, HTTP etc.  









We can download the stable or a beta version that may include additional features. We will use the stable 1.76.11 version. 

 Before start the installation we need to install the latest version of .NET. The installation wizard asks for 4.0 version

But when we try to open the application after the installation we will get this warning if we use anything below 4.6

We will also install 2 (two) Windows updates 
Windows6.1-KB2574819-v2-x64 / Windows6.1-KB2592687-x64
that are related with some additional support for RDP and our older Windows 7 client doesn't support them out of the box.

As we can see both Windows update installations require restart.

After we fullfil all the prerequisites, we can start the installation.  

On the connections TAB we can add new folders to organize the connections and then add new connections.  We can add folders inside folders to create a more hierachical view.

We have created a new folder "Router" and inside that the connection. 
Under config, we can specify the display options: name,description and the icon (those won't affect ouur connection). Then we can edit the connection, our hostname or IP of the device we want to connect. We can also add username and password (not required). Finally under protocols we can specify the Portocol. Here it is SSH versions 2. The application will select the default port (22) for us, and which settings we want to use. As we saw on the previous post, settings contain font color, font type, log file etc.

We can right click on the icon and press connect. 

Since we specify the username and password for the application, we will not prompted for username and password: Using username "vyos"

Now we will add a Remote Desktop shortcut connection on the same App.

As you can see the SSH and RDP session are running on the same application, which is ideal for multi-tasking.