Solar Putty
- FREE download: grade CLI access is now free, including:- Tabs- Native GNS3 integration- Login scripts- Modular credentia.
- What is Solar-PuTTY? GNS3 uses Solar-PuTTY as the default terminal software, a tabbed terminal software based on PuTTY. Solar-PuTTY’s default window is an orangeish font color on a black background. Personally, I don’t like the background color and font color.
- Here is SolarPuTTY - here is the link to the live Cisco racks I demonstrated on - https://www.howtonetw.
- Aug 12, 2020 Putty is an open-source terminal emulator that supports several network protocols like Telnet, SSH, Rlogin, SCP, and Raw Socket. The initial version of putty is dated back to January 8, 1999, and designed for the Windows Operating system but now it is supporting other operating systems like macOS and Linux too.
There are many such applications on the Internet, with which you can perform this task, but we now only refer to Solar-PuTTY which is a completely free application with which we can make this secure connection, in a simple and direct way from Windows.
Solar-PuTTY is a portable application, so it should not be installed on your computer and does not affect Windows registry, moreover, you can save it to any USB storage device and use it wherever you need it.
Although it has a minimalist interface, it has powerful functions, some of them are: the possibility of managing the credentials that includes private keys, quick access to the work sessions, automatic reconnection in case of disconnection and many others.
In conclusion, through a completely free application, you can control and verify any details about computers connected remotely directly from a single application with all the security guarantees of Solar-PuTTY.
FREE download: wait is over! Professional grade CLI access is now free, including:- Tabs- Native GNS3 integration- Login scripts.
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What is Solar-PuTTY?
Solar Putty Change Font Size
GNS3 uses Solar-PuTTY as the default terminal software, a tabbed terminal software based on PuTTY. Solar-PuTTY’s default window is an orangeish font color on a black background.
Personally, I don’t like the background color and font color. If you try to change the background color or font color, you may be confused as to how to do so. (I was so confused that it took me about 3 hours of research and trial and error to change the font and background color…)
How to change the background color and font color on Solar-PuTTY is explained.
How to change the Solar-PuTTY font
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To change the background color and font of Solar-PuTTY, follow the steps below.
Step1:Open PuTTY Configuration.
Step2:Changing the font and background color
Step3:Save the “Default Settings”
Step4:Reconnect the console.
Step1:Open PuTTY Configuration
To change the background color and font, we open the PuTTY Configuration window. To change the background color and font, click [Menu]- [Settings]-[GENERAL] and then click [Launch PuTTY] to open the [PuTTY Configuration] window.
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Step2:Changing the font and background color
You can change the font and font size from [Appearance] in [PuTTY Configuration].
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Background color and font color can be changed from [Colours]. Select the color you want to change and click [Modify] and select a color from the color palette or specify the RGB value directly.
Default Foreground
Default Bold Foreground
Default Background
Default Bold Background
Step3:Save the “Default Settings”
This is the confusing part. When you click [Open] on the [PuTTY Configuration] page, the changes are not reflected. You have to save the “Default Settings” in order for the font and background color settings to take effect. Go to Session and select “Default Settings” and click [Save]. This will save your changes. After that, you can close the screen by clicking [Cancel].
Step4:Reconnect the console
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If you connect to your router’s console again, the font and background color changes will be reflected.