SecureCRT Settings Tips

VanDyke SecureCRT provides  IT pros a very user-friendly client to manage command line devices and SSH hosts with. Connecting to devices securely is one thing, and there are other products that can achieve this goal, but with SecureCRT, multiple connections can be managed in tabs to allow you to work between sessions without changing windows.

Here are some my favourite settings to customize SecureCRT:

1. Edit Default Settings for terminal Emulation

If you are using Linux devices, please choose Linux as your Terminal. For network / security devices, use VT100 will be best choice.

I am also like to choose ANSI color and set 5000 for Scrollback Buffer.

2. Appearance

I like to use Traditional as color scheme.

3. SSH

SSH2 always prefers when choose for ssh protocol.

4. Enable Log file to automatically use different name

C:\TEMP\session%H%M%D%Y%S.log

Here are other possible substitutions:

%H - hostname %S - session name %Y - four-digit year %M - two-digit month %D - two-digit day of the month %h - two-digit hour %m - two-digit minute %s - two-digit seconds %t - three-digit milliseconds %% - percent (%) %envvar% - environment variable

Reference:

SecureCRT - Tips