I know that there are several Firefox plugins that are invaluable for development. What plugins exist that are useful for system administration, monitoring, and the like? What plugins make your day-to-day job as a system or network administrator easier?
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Foxyproxy - I cant stand getting attacked by others when they walk over with their stats and say "Hm this Serverfault.com you wasted 5 minutes of our time on it."
Portman : Wish I could upvote this more.Nick Kavadias : this looks more like a tool that would give sysadmins work to do! Maybe give it to all the end users as a ploy to get better funding for network security projects?From Shard -
Xmarks, cause who wants to maintain a local only copy of their Firefox bookmarks. Xmarks will sync your bookmarks across Firefox, IE etc on all your computers. It's fast and stays out of the way.
Christopher Galpin : Now when will it sync my Chrome bookmarks? :(From Omar Shahine -
LastPass. So I don't have to remember the loads of accounts I use (and can generate very strong passwords for each of your accounts), both personal and at work.
From Ivan -
ShowIP - allows me to see quickly the IP address of the server where a particular website is hosted. Assists in managing my many clients websites.
DNSCache - quickly disable/re-enable Firefox's builtin DNS Cache, particularly good if your also manipulating the site's DNS at the time
ScreenGrab - particularly good at capturing that error and sending to the developers.
Milner : +1 for screengrab, makes life a lot easier!From Quog -
If you're using amazon ec2; elasticfox
From xkcd150 -
Even for IT, I'd have to put FireBug at the top of the list, too much good information in there.and
From WaldenL -
Firebug and YSlow! FTW
However I don't see why a web browser is a crucial tool for sysadmins, curl ? wget ? telnet host 80 ?
Matt Simmons : I admin vmware server 2.x. If I don't run a website, I've got to use the 1500 character-long command lines.From Dave Cheney -
WebMail Notifier - Tracks web email accounts
Live http headers - great for trouble shooting websites
Ghostery watch the websites that watch you
From UndertheFold -
ReloadEvery - so I can get SO refresh automagically while working!
AdBlockPlus - because so many sites have ads that I don't care about.
Mentioned before, but super +1 for Firebug and YSlow because there's typically some good information that can be gleaned depending on what issue you might get roped in to.
From Milner -
Greasemonkey and the many scripts available for it is all I need.
From David Collantes -
Tamper Data this is handy when you have to examine HTTP headers. This may be necessary if you have virtual hosts in a hosting environment. We also insert a field in the header to identify web machines in some of our web farms to identify problem hosts.
From mryan1 -
Charles Proxy with Firefox plugin is much better than Firebug network statistics.
From Jake McGraw -
Delicious Bookmarks to sync my bookmarks across machines.
spoulson : Yes! Yes! Yes! It's like a catch-all of all the useful content I've come across, tagged and sorted.From Adam Gibbins -
You can't work without something to give you rhythm
From Dani -
From talonx
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Nagios Checker is pretty nice.
From jwiz -
Fireftp for when you don't want to install an ftp client
From Bourne -
In addition to others already mentioned, I find SQLite Manager invaluable.
From John Gardeniers -
Update Scanner - For every site you have keep tabs on that doesn't have email notifications or rss.
If you ar using google apps:
Active Inbox - GTD for mail.
From Erik
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