Principles and advantages of the program

Once you connect to a device using WinAgents RouterTweak, you have a number of tools allowing you to make your work with Cisco routers and switches more visual and effective. Knowing the principles of working with the command line interface of Cisco devices, you can use WinAgents RouterTweak to automate the most common tasks of network device administration. This approach saves your time by allowing you to hand over routine operations to the program. Here is a number of benefits you get if you use WinAgents RouterTweak:

• Reducing the time needed to connect to a device. Having specified the username and password for connecting to a device only once, you will not have to spend time on entering them again when you connect to your router next time. WinAgents RouterTweak will enter the account data itself and switch to the privileged mode if necessary.
• Viewing the configuration of a device in a convenient form. Just click once to get the configuration of your device in a visual form. Syntax highlighting and the structure tree of the device configuration will allow you to quicker find your bearings among numerous configuration commands. For instance, all you need to do in order to switch to the settings of a certain interface is select this interface in the configuration tree.
• Increasing the speed of work with access control lists (ACL). WinAgents RouterTweak allows you to do without a TFTP server while editing access control lists. You can add, edit and remove commands located in the middle of ACLs. The program knows about the peculiarities of using the command line interface for working with Cisco access control lists and takes them into account while editing ACLs.
• Usability in editing the configuration of devices. It is easier to edit configuration commands due to the context help system. While you are adding a new command to the configuration file, WinAgents RouterTweak requests its possible parameters from the device. In the process of editing commands, you see the list of available variants for each command all the time and can select one of them without entering the entire string.
• Usability in carrying out common tasks of Cisco device administration. Several mouse clicks are enough to print out the configuration of a device, copy it to a file or save it to NVRAM.

WinAgents RouterTweak offers you two ways to work with devices. You can use the terminal shell to work with the command line interface directly. In this case you will have a standard set of command line tools enhanced by syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting makes it easier to find what you need in the results of executed commands, which makes your work more effective.

A more effective and faster method of editing the configuration of a device is using the built-in editor. In this case the program requests the configuration file from the device and allows you to edit it. Instead of you, the application will do everything necessary in the command line. And you will be able to focus on the device configuration using context help.

But it does not turn the application into a "black box". You are constantly in control of its actions and the results of your operations. To ensure that, the entire process of command exchange between the devices being configured and WinAgents RouterTweak is displayed in the terminal window.

Another convenient feature of WinAgents RouterTweak is the permanent availability of the window for terminal access to the device. Thus, you can combine the two methods of working with the device.