Get Console Reviews

Fantastic Job!

i_heart_k-fed

I can connect wirelessly with Aircosole and this app. You guys did a great job, huge time saver! Nothing else like it on the market.

I use Get-Console on my iPad2 along with the Airconsole adapter. The app is great. It supports a “Connection Manager” which allows directories so that you can organize your connection objects. Each connection object allows custom settings and you can create a login script and assign it to the connection. As soon as the connection comes up the script logs you in. There is a lot more you can do with the scripting engine besides login scripts. It is fully integrated with Dropbox and you can configure it to automatically log every connection and save it to dropbox. There is “CMD” button that allow you to save often used commands for quick entry and you can save complete text files in dropbox and instantly paste them into a device or paste what is in the clipboard. It supports Telnet, SSH and Serial using either the RedPark cable or the AirConsole. The Airconsole is the best $70 tool I have ever purchased. It provides a serial console connection over wifi. But it also has an Ethernet jack so you can connect to a console port for serial and then connect the ethernet port for TFTP (built into the Get-Console App). Plus it has a DHCP server built in. You can connect the Airconsole Ethernet port to any device that is configured for DHCP and it will hand out an address. Now you just connect your iPad or laptop to the Airconsole and you have Ethernet access to the device. I use it to configure iLo on HP servers all the time. Battery life is about 5 hours but you can charge it while using it. Almost any device with a USB port will charge it so it’s never a problem in a rack with servers. With the Airconsole device I don’t need to bring a laptop any longer. I have Serial, telnet and SSH right on the iPad with a great application. If I have wifi at the site I don’t even need the Airconsole! Plus, it works over VPN so if the site doesn’t have wifi but I have 3G coverage I just connect the VPN and use telnet/SSH for existing switches. I have only had a couple questions and the developers were very quick to respond. At one point I smashed the usb/serial cable in the hinge of a wall mount rack and they gave me a big discount on the replacement! I purchased an app that scans the network using SNMP. At a customer site I run that, grab the output and create the connection objects in a short time.

Love the app, however.......

TimWalshMi

Been using this app at work on my iPad 2 ever since it first came out. Honestly it gets better with every upgrade. I recently upgraded to iOS 8 and I'm now finding I'm unable to connect to cisco switches with it. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app with no improvement. I've had the cable for awhile, so it's possible the cable has finally worn out. I'd hang off on upgrading to iOS 8 if you rely on this tool. The only other problem I have with the app is that the last line of the screen is always covered by the keyboard.

Does not work with my iPhone 6

Txsdave

I've used it wth my iPad 2. Worked okay. Doesn't connect at all with my iPhone 6.

iPhone 6 fail

AlienPresence

Does not work on iPhone 6 Plus

Excellent all around

JoeGuru

Whether you have the serial cable or are just looking for a telnet/SSH client it's the only one I've found that satisfactorily supports an external keyboard. Has a good no-frills and frills mode. Highly recommend.

Was great... now barely usable

QuidamBrujah

especially if you have a keyboard. I've got a great clamshell bluetooth keyboard case and Get Console is nearly unusable with a keyboard. If you start the app in landscape mode, it comes up portrait and the screen refuses to adjust regardless how much you rotate back and forth. The app insists it be used in portrait and there's nothing obvious or easy within the menus to make it easy to rotate. The menu structure is confusing: you will create a multitude of new connections all named 'New SSH Connection' or telnet. Renaming is not intuitive or obvious. The big selling point (to me) is the web interface for providing remote access -- and I like that -- but it can't help me get past the UI problems. Fix that and I'd give it 4 stars -- maybe 5, but if I can't use it, then it's zero stars.

Almost awesome

ChrisHappel

I'm a network admin and have worked with lots of terminal apps on many platforms, from procomm plus and an app to get console sessions into Cisco gear on my PalmPilot to more recently iSSH, TouchTerm and SecureCRT for Mac and iPad. I really like the 'Get Console' advanced options to import saved sessions from SecureCRT and PuTTY, but unfortunately that feature doesn't work. I like that I can sync sessions between my iPad and IPhone with iCloud, but that doesn't work either (but Dropbox does - mostly). I like that I can create login scripts, which does work, but a script can only be used for one device, then it disappears and has to be re-created from scratch. I like that it saves passwords, but you can only recall them from the iPad app, not the iPhone, and the passwords don't appear to sync. Generally, the app seems to work - it will give a console session via ssh, and the red park console adapter cable works for direct serial connections, but it is clunky, has lost my saved sessions several times, is unintuative, and just tough to get set up. I haven't attempted transferring capture files and configs - I've been so annoyed at trying to just get connections set up I haven't gotten that far.

Needs screen size support update

N328KF

This program needs to support the iPhone 6/6+ and iPad Pro screen sizes, as well as split screen and multitasking.

Great App but crash in latest edition

Bmansourifar

It was a great App and I loved it before, especially sync connections with secureCRT on dropbox.com, but after upgrade to latest version (with ios 9.1) it crash and close unfortunately :( I hope that developer fix it ASAP :(

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