Utilities

Links to useful troubleshooting tools.

Status

• time [1]
• Office365 [2]
• Cyren [3]
• Down For Everyone [4]

Troubleshooting Utilities

Single point download

• Ninite [5] Let's you download a bunch of useful tools all at once.

Browsers

• Chrome [6]
• Firefox [7]

FTP

• WinSCP [8]

Telnet

• KiTTY [9]
• PuTTY [10]

LDAP

• LDAPBrowser [11] make sure to choose LDAPBrowser not LDAPAdministrator.
• EWSEditor [12] is a powerful and more dangerous tool that LDAP Browser since it can change entries.

Text Editors

• NotePad++ [13] Free, can open large log files
• TextEdit [14] Evaluation, can open large log files, good search capablities
• glogg [15] free, can open really large log files
• EditPad Lite [16] free, big files
• VIM for Windows [17] free.
• PilotEdit Lite [18]
• 010 Editor [19]
• slickedit [20]
• Log Expert [21] also tails.

Log Tailing

• baretail [22] for tailing a log while it is running

Office suite

• LibreOffice [23] good for editing csv files.

Database

• Toad for MySQL [24]

Microsoft

• BGInfo [25] puts server info on desktop.
• RAMMap [26] shows how windows is assigning physical RAM.

Disk

• WinDirStat [27] Windows directory size statistics. This can return data on the archive folder, but it will take significant time, about 8 hours for 2.4M files in 2.3M sub-directories.

Compression

• 7zip [28] more efficient then windows zip.

Remote Desktop

• RealVNC [29] to connect to Linux boxes remotely. Remember to enable Remote in YaST and add IPAddr:5901 when trying to get in.

PDF

• Adobe Reader [30]
• CutePDFWriter [31] has a PDF printer which is good for testing.

Online Utilities

Byte Conversion

• ByteConverter [32]

Time

• Epoch & Unix Timestamp Conversion Tools [33]
• World Clock Meeting Planner [34]
• NIST Internet Time Servers [35]
• Date ± Days Calculator / Date ± Business Days Calculator [36]
• Time Difference Calculator [37]