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I've used PuTTY for years, but alas, my saved session list has grown to the point that the simple alphabetical list is a bit cumbersome. What I'd really like to see is a nested/hierarchical style of saved sessions so that I can say create:

  • ACME
    • switch01
    • switch02
    • router
    • ...
  • Rand
    • mailserver
    • webserver
    • ...

Any suggestions?

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+1 - SecureCRT lets you organize like that, but it's clunky in other ways and expensive, I'd like something better too. – Shane Madden Mar 24 '11 at 14:45
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Wow, really, Tess? I think I was pretty specific in my question and the answers reflect that. – gravyface Mar 25 '11 at 14:02
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If you're looking for something similar to a remote desktop connection manager but for SSH connections, you can use the PuTTY session manager.

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Ah, very nice. That's exactly what I was looking for. – gravyface Mar 24 '11 at 14:53
This is a great tool. I've used it for many years. – garconcn Mar 24 '11 at 20:46
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I've been using puttycm for some time now and it serves me well.PuttyCM

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Check out KiTTY. It is a fork from PuTTY that has additional features, including organizing saved sessions in a folder hierarchy.

Site: http://www.9bis.net/kitty/

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Try out mRemoteNG, it'll manage SSH sessions as well as RDP, VNC and a bunch of others. You can create groups, assign common settings to groups, .e.g username, port number, etc.

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+1, mRemoteNG does exactly what the asker requires. It's worth pointing out too that mRemoteNG is a wrapper around PuTTy, so if you're used to PuTTy you will find it simple to transfer. – Colin Pickard Mar 25 '11 at 11:06
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If you don't already use Cygwin, this may be too roundabout, but:

  1. Cygwin (and install mintty for a good terminal)
  2. Install zsh as your shell
  3. Install openssh

This setup will give you ssh host completion, so that you can 'ssh h[TAB]' and get all my hosts that begin with 'h' as found in the known_hosts file (the file that logs all hosts you've logged into).

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You can configure host completion in bash too. – Mircea Vutcovici Mar 24 '11 at 16:43
With mintty and openssh, you could also create Windows shortcuts to your servers and stick them in appropriate folders, on the desktop, or in the start menu. Set the shortcut targets like this: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/ssh server – ak2 Mar 25 '11 at 13:44
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I use mRemote. It does nested folders, and lets you set inheritance on nested items. Very nice. RDP, putty for SSH, quite slick.

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I use this: http://remotedesktopmanager.com/ for all my networking stuff -- VNC, SSH, RDP, etc. It remembers settings for you

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Another choice is the terminals program for Windows: 

 http://terminals.codeplex.com/

It does multiple protocols, SSH, VCN, RDP, etc...

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Bitvise tunnelier stores each connection in a shortcut file, so you can use folders to create whatever organizational scheme you want. However I still prefer putty for it's great terminal.

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