MobaXterm is an all-in-one program that embeds a wide variety of utilities for managing and administrating multiple computers connected to a common network.
Visually, the program has a well-crafted GUI, with big icons for buttons and well-placed tabs, so the user can easily access the desired utilities.
Moving on to features, MobaXterm has a complete package with plenty of functions and applications that a programmer, a web designer or an administrator needs in order to get the job done.
It supports SSH, Telnet, RDP, VNC, FTP, SFTP, Rlogin, XDMCP and Serial connections so you can create various types of sessions. Other than that, the integrated terminal can run Unix commands through bash, ls, cat, sed, grep, awk or rsync.
Also, thanks to X11-Forwarding, your remote display will use SSH for safe transportation, and the multi-tabbed interface will help you execute multiple tasks at the same time on numerous remote devices.
Other included features are a versatile session manager, a fully configured Xserver on X.org, and various add-ons and plugins.
In the end, I'd conclude that MobaXterm provides its users with plenty of features and tools so they can fulfill any type of remote management job.
Despite not being completely free, and having a time-consuming connection set-up, you should definitely give it a shot.
Pros
- Has X11-Forwarding feature
- Supports SSH, Telnet, RDP, VNC, FTP, SFTP, Rlogin, XDMCP and Serial connections
- Has an integrated terminal
- Provides a multi-tabbed interface
Cons
- Connection set-up takes several minutes
- Requires payment for full version
I love this tool. I played with it for the first time today and I think, it's the great tool for a php programmer. I installed MobaXterm on my Windows 7 machine and tested it on how to create a file and write to it. I was confronted with a challenge of not being able to put semi-colon on my statements. I think that it is a bug because when I checked the installation folder I couldn't see any /usr/.... directory where I could perform some changes to make it to allow me adding semi-colon.The second issue was that I couldn't run the php shell scripts inside my cakephp application even when I used ./cake -app command just to see the initial shell home page. Any ideas on how to make php executable?
Great for system administration