#Multiple ssh sessions putty free#

If you need to control windows individually, you can turn off 'broadcasting' and turn it back on when you’re ready. Typing 'yes' and Enter on a machine probably won’t do any harm (actually, try it and see!), but it’s not a habit to get into. PuTTY Tab Manager actually does nothing except managing multiple instances of PuTTY. If you type an SSH command to connect to several different servers and hit Enter on them all together, some may require you to type 'yes' to continue if you haven’t connected to it before. You must also be aware that running the same command can take varying amounts of time to complete, or can have different outputs. Obviously, great care must be taken when running commands on multiple machines it’s easy to make a mistake. It works, however the issue is that Putty does not process them serially and the output gets garbled. Then you can type into each one individually, or choose the option to broadcast to all windows or a group. I am doing this by copying 100 of the commands and pasting them into a putty SSH session. The only thing that changes in the Putty sessions is that we connect via ssh and then ports 2000 and upward. You can use it on its own, or right-click somewhere to split the screen, vertically or horizontally. 4 Answers Sorted by: 24 What you want to use is screen or even better a user-friendly wrapper around screen called byobu. Then, when you open the app, it’s just a regular terminal window. To enable it: go to Connection > SSH page locate 'Sharing an SSH connection between PuTTY tools' box and check 'Share SSH connection if possible' The option needs to be enabled both in the 'upstream' and 'downstream' instance. The feature is called 'connection sharing'.

#Multiple ssh sessions putty free#

Free online course: RHEL Technical Overview 1 Answer Sorted by: 2 PuTTY supports that too.