PuTTY Session Manager0.41.166.0

PuTTY Session Manager is a software application designed specifically for helping system administrators organize their PuTTY sessions into folders for a better management of the entire process.

User interface

The tool places a small icon in the system tray and gives you the possibility to right-click on its icon for accessing several features, such as create or load a session, enable the tree-view mode for the Session Manager, open up the configuration panel, refresh sessions, work with a session editor, set hotkeys, and enable sync sessions.

Working the session editor

The session editor provides information about the session name, path and hostname, and gives you the possibility to export the information to CSV file format or registry file, copy the hostnames to the clipboard, copy session attributes, as well as delete sessions.

Altering hotkeys

One of the best features included in the application is the support for hotkeys which helps you activate several options on the fly. You may change the hotkeys used for creating a new session, minimizing the main window, and opening up your favorite sessions.

Sync features

When it comes to synchronization options, you can update, ignore or remove sessions, identify renamed sessions, reset data, and activate the sync mode. Additionally, the tool offers information about the session name, local and remote folders, local hostnames, status, and action.What’s more, the application helps you choose the desired session location (be it a file or URL), ignore local sessions not present in remote list, pick a template for new sessions, as well as load and validate session list.

Configuration settings

PuTTY Session Manager lets you alter several configuration settings, namely run the utility at Windows startup, confirm on exit, enable transparency, minimize the app at boot up, make the program remain on top of other windows, as well as locate the putty.exe file.What’s more, the session manager can be customized by expanding the tree on Windows startup, displaying icons in the tree, enabling tooltips, and entering a user-defined number of sessions in subfolders to open before warnings.There’s support for several Pageant settings that you can apply for launching Pageant at startup, adding PPK keys, and locating the pageant.exe file, as well as FileZilla settings for tweaking the protocol parameters.The tool lets you enable WinSCP support and set up protocol options, as well as configure proxy settings.

Bottom line

All in all, PuTTY Session Manager comes with a handy suite of features for organizing your PuTTY sessions and assigning hotkeys to your favorite ones.