Terminal

What the NetStacks terminal does, how standalone and enterprise (Controller) mode differ, which protocols are supported, and a tour of the window layout.

Open SSH and Telnet sessions in NetStacks: saved sessions and credential profiles in the standalone app, the Devices list and Connect dialog in enterprise mode, Quick Connect, auto-commands and reconnect.

Manage the standalone session library: folders, favorites, recent connections, search, CSV/JSON import and export, and importing from SecureCRT.

Reach a device's console port through a terminal server (Opengear, Cisco async, Avocent, Lantronix) from a NetStacks session, over SSH or Telnet.

Work with many sessions at once in NetStacks: the tab strip and tab menu, split view with up to four panes, reopening closed tabs, pop-out windows and saved groups of tabs.

The complete default NetStacks keyboard shortcut table for macOS and Windows/Linux, how terminal focus affects Ctrl shortcuts, rebinding shortcuts, mapped keys and the command palette.

Copy and paste in the NetStacks terminal: multi-line paste review, CLI-flavor paste presets, raw paste, clipboard history, and searching the scrollback.

Capture terminal sessions in NetStacks: asciicast session recordings with playback, plain-text session logs, Save Output to Docs, inline capture to documents, and troubleshooting sessions.

Browse, upload, download, rename and edit files on a device over SFTP from a NetStacks terminal session, with per-device starting folders.

Create local (-L) and dynamic SOCKS5 (-D) SSH port forwards in NetStacks, either per session or as standalone tunnels with auto-start and auto-reconnect.

Connect to devices through an SSH bastion in NetStacks: define jump hosts, use another session as a jump, set a default jump on a credential profile, and understand what goes through the jump.

How NetStacks verifies SSH host keys: the first-connection and changed-key prompts, managing trusted keys, and the Controller's host-key policy in enterprise mode.

Send the same input to several devices from NetStacks: Multi-Send mirrors your typing across open tabs, and Broadcast Command runs one command on many saved sessions and collects the output.

NetStacks warns before you send risky commands such as reload, write erase or configure terminal, and the Session Guard preview catches commands that would cut off your own SSH session.

Customize the NetStacks terminal: app and terminal color themes, fonts, terminal behavior settings, keyword highlighting rules and presets, the status bar, panels and hostname display.

Reusable commands in the NetStacks terminal: snippets from the status bar, custom right-click actions with {value} placeholders for detected IPs, MACs and interfaces, plus Quick Prompts and Quick Calls.

Hover over IP addresses, MAC addresses and interface names in NetStacks terminal output to see reverse DNS, vendor, NetBox and Netdisco data, and right-click detected values for ping, traceroute, whois and more.

Record troubleshooting knowledge against a device in NetStacks: issue, root cause, resolution, helpful commands and ticket reference, shown to the team and given to the AI.

Tell the NetStacks AI about a device: its role, criticality, standing instructions, notes and dated memories, included automatically whenever you ask the AI about that device.

Share a live NetStacks terminal session with a link, read-only or read-write, with expiry and viewer limits. Requires a NetStacks Controller.