PuTTY Session Manager
 

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PuTTY Session Manager (PSM) is a tool that allows system adminstrators to organise their PuTTY sessions into folders and assign hotkeys to their favourite sessions. This is designed for MS Windows and requires the .NET 2.0 Runtime.

Features Organise your sessions into folders Launch folders of sessions simultaneously Assign Windows hotkeys to your ten favourite sessions Browse session folders from the system tray Display sessions in a list Semi-transparency of sessions window Does not require any alterations to the existing PuTTY executable Session Management - available from the tree view or a separate session management window Export Sessions to registry file, or CSV file Save New Session using existing session as template Delete Sessions Copy Session Attributes - copy all or part of your sesssion settings from one session to many others Rename Session Support for launching Pageant with a list of SSH keys Support for launching FileZilla and WinSCP session from the tree Check for updates feature

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Screenshots can be found here.

There is no documentation for this at the moment , although I plan to rectify this as soon as possible!

Submit support requests to the tracker here, or post a note on one of the discussion forums here.

1. PuTTY. This has been tested with PuTTY v0.58,v0.59 and v0.60.
2. .NET Framework 2.0. The windows installer will check your system for the correct version of the framework. It will then prompt you to download and install it, if you don't already have it. Alternatively, download it from Microsoft, and use the zip file for the binaries.
3. This has only been tested on Windows XP Professional. I have done limited testing on Vista, which seems to work ok, apart from the session hotkeys (Win 1-9,0 ) have been taken for the system quick launch applications. Update 29-06-2008: This is now addressed in v0.31  - which allows you to choose an alternative modifier (Ctrl+Alt) for hotkeys.

Binaries: PSM is available in a windows installer or a zip file. All downloads can be found on the Sourceforge download page.

Source code: The subversion repository can be viewed here.

Release Notes: The latest release notes can be found here.

If you want to get the latest source code and build the bleeding edge version, instructions are as follows:

1. Get the project from subversion - you can get subversion here:
http://subversion.tigris.org/
and tortoise svn ( a windows client for subversion ) here:
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Set the svn root to be https://puttysm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/puttysm/trunk and do a checkout.

2. If you have Visual Studio 2005, just open the visual studio project and build the project. You can download Visual Studio C# Express edition (free) from here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/

3. If not you can download the Microsoft .NET 2.0 SDK from here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx

In the root of the svn sandbox, run the "SDK Command Prompt" shortcut ( if it doesn't work , check the properties to ensure that it points to the location that you installed the SDK to )

From the command prompt, run "buildrelease.bat" - this calls the "msbuild" utility , which calls the C# compiler.

3. In the svn sandbox - go to PuTTYSessionManager\bin\Release and the compiled exe should be there - you can just run it from that directory.

PuTTY Session Manager is released under the GPL, and makes use of  the FileHelpers Library , released under the LGPL.

Designed for use with PuTTY by Simon Tatham.

Inspired by QuickPuTTY by Olivier Deckmyn and PLaunch.

Installer uses the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.

PSM makes grateful use of the FileHelpers Library.