Apps for the Sys/Network admin in your life

I don't find these apps to be the "geeky" sort of thing that runs for the Big Brother in me. I am a sys/network-admin AND programmer de jour ... and if you have done ANY opensource technology and have a Mac you start realize that every thing you ever wanted is really in the Apps/Utils directory.

One only need peruse THAT directory to really find what you need. As for the remote connection stuff... well that just makes sense. If you are a University student, most likely chicken of the VNC and the RDesktop have popped their heads.

All and all.. eh. Not really that geeky. Once you get into command line packet sniffing and Kismac security utils do you REALLY start to reach the "nerd/geek" factor.

It's not technically a mac app, but rdesktop will compile and run nicely under apples X11. It's invalvuable if you have to remotely admin a windows box.

I also love CronniX, CrushFTP and Pseudo

I like JellyfiSSH ( http://www.grepsoft.net/jellyfissh.html ) for quickly getting SSH terminals open to all my servers.

I second the inexplicably left-out votes for Terminal and ARD.
Terminal is absolutely essential, and can gracefully handle special characters (like the "Apple Character", shift-option-k) which iTerm mangles. and ARD is just really great to have around. I'd also like to add TextEdit to the list.

What, no one writes scripts anymore?

-systemsboy

mmm...how about replacing Apple's iChat server with Wildfire combined with Spark clients for internal messaging.

Cacti for SNMP and Nagios for monitoring and alerts.

kerberos.

oh yea...tar is pretty handy to keep ACLs and metadata around...

Terminal.

And ARD is pretty nice. But I absolutely need my terminal.

To add to post #1: A NetBoot enviroment with Mike Bombich's NetRestore PHPServices, ssh, dscl, Server Assistant, and #!/bin/bash.

To add to the list, Apple Remote Desktop, Server Monitor, Workgroup Manager, OmniGraffle Pro, Navicat, MacTracker, CarbonCopyCloner, NetRestore