Comments on: GNS3 : How to Use Putty Connection Manager for Console Access

By: Rinxer

Rinxer — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:51:39 +0000

Actually… just figured it out.
everything is working smoothly now.
peace!

By: Rinxer

Rinxer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:02:52 +0000

Hi,

Many Thanks for the tutorial!
I am running into a small issue and hope someone can help me figure it out.

Here is my setup:
- total of 3 routers running in GNS3.

Issues:
1) I am only able to connect to the first two routers and not the 3rd using PuttyCM.
2) Router 1’s connection is actually on “Console 2001″ (not on 2000)
3) Router 2 is actually on “Console 2007″.

Double clicking on all others Console ports in connection manager does not do anything and connection to R3 does not exist even though it is powered on in GNS3.

Thanks again. All help is greatly appreciated.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:08:19 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the Great Tutorial. I saw the posts related to error some people are getting, if they actually view the Video properly there wont be any problems. It took me <5 mins to set it up.

Thanks Again

By: Santosh

Santosh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:15:46 +0000

I tried out everything in your tutorial as mentioned. But for some reason it shows me that the application already started. How do I fix this error?

By: azadnaik

azadnaik — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:33:18 +0000

Please let me know how to open multiple tabs in puttycm using script/command line interface from one terminal…..\

Thanks!!!

By: Tariq Ahmad

Tariq Ahmad — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:09:06 +0000

@Everyone,thanks for comments.I couldn’t reply back due to time constraints earlier.Hope you guys have figured things out on your own;)

@Raphael,Download this file(right-click and save to your PC) and load it into PuttyCM Database(shown in tutorial).Its not mandatory but if you have to manage multiple devices,this will help you keep track of inventory(devices) in your lab.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:23:24 +0000

Create Console Sessions.

Sorry to be so dense, but I can’t figure it out.

I go here
http://www.brainbump.net/download/gns3sessions.dat

and there is a script. What do I do next please.

By: della

della — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:03:39 +0000

thanks for gr8 tu

By: awnetadmin

awnetadmin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:27:28 +0000

OK, i just figured out that if you run a netstat -a you will a list of the ports that you will need to make the connections. the ports on the session file are in consecutive order -2000,2001,2002,2003… In the netstat -a I found the other ports- 2000,2001, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013… Once i changed the GNS2SessionDB to the corresponding ports it worked. Hope that helps. Cheers!

By: awnetadmin

awnetadmin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:18:14 +0000

I have a topo of 6 router and have set the settings up identical to tutorial but when i launch a console from GNS3 i get error messages:12/10/2009 2:11:04 PM:Unable to find PuTTY sessions (registry key ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions’ does not exist)

When i open the puttycm application i see the loaded db and i can connect to the first few routers. However when i connect to the others it will open a session and immediately close it. I have even tried to add the path in the reg. Please advise. Thanks for all the great info.