Pac Manager - The Ultimate Connection Manager

Pac Manager is a very interesting, functional and useful tool for any administrator. This tool is very little commented on in the Linux world and to a certain extent unknown by many, which surprises me a bit, being so useful and practical. Here I bring you a complete review of the application.

First of all, What is Pac Manager and what is it for?. Easy is a ssh, telnet connection manager, among others, with a very friendly graphical interface, it can save passwords, users, connection settings, appearance settings, custom text and fonts, logs (very useful to check when we make a mistake) , allows exporting and importing connections, making a cluster of connections (thus avoiding repetitive tasks), etc. We can download it at sourceforge.

It comes in 3 flavors, deb, rpm and tar.gz, it is a matter of which one best suits your system. Once installed it looks like this:

Basically we can manage everything remotely from here FTP, SSH, RDP, VNC, among others, for RDP you must install rdesktop and so on, if you do not have the appropriate protocol installed for any connection it will not be shown. Simple, right?

Now the interesting thing, for example in ssh we can add user, password, port, ip, everything from "Add connection".

We can also add groups "Add group" to have our connections more organized, as well as import and export connections, always have a backup of all your settings. Wow !!!

Let's visualize how the open connections are stacked in tabs at the top, like a web browser

We can configure proxy options, very useful when we are in a company or private network

In this section you can add any number of commands that are executed, before or after, when an event occurs, macros, environment variables, etc.

A very useful feature is to split the screen horizontally or vertically to perform tasks by viewing more than one connection at a time. with option SPLIT

One of my favorites is cluster connections, «Saved clusters» This is a way to configure and that you can save this configuration for another time, you just have to put a name and start adding your connections. Or on the contrary if you want it is a temporary one you can also in Runing clusters. Once you are satisfied, you accept.

Another way is in the option PCC, simple here you send it to all currently open connections

This is a very nice feature of this application, logs, to keep a log of each command. Very helpful when you want to remember or review an event

Ok this section is not for newbies, you can do scripts in pyton, and run them from the option scriptmanager, bring some pre-loaded examples, so you can venture without fear

Wake-on LanThere are applications that do this task, but it will be very practical for you as a server administrator or to have this feature integrated in the same application. 

Do not forget, VERY IMPORTANT, press save, to save all your settings

Well these are the most resulting characteristics for me, however it has many more to discover, I assure you that you are not going to waste your time installing this application, that's all for this time, until next time