Friday, January 28, 2011

As a system administrator, what Firefox plugin helps you do your job?

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?

  • 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? :(
  • 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.
  • WebMail Notifier - Tracks web email accounts

    Live http headers - great for trouble shooting websites

    Ghostery watch the websites that watch you

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • You can't work without something to give you rhythm

    From Dani
  • From talonx
  • 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.

  • 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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