Cmdlets for Internet Communications & Messaging
- Extends Windows PowerShell with a broad range of network management and messaging capabilities.
- Cmdlets for every major Internet technology, including: SNMP, LDAP, DNS, Syslog, HTTP, WebDav, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, Rexec/RShell, Telnet, SSH, Remoting, and more.
- PowerShell V2 module support, enhanced pipelining, persistent Cmdlet connections, etc.
NetCmdlets extend the features of Microsoft Windows PowerShell with a broad range of network management and messaging capabilities. The current release contains dozens of Cmdlets providing access to network and host protocols such as SNMP, LDAP, DNS, Syslog, HTTP, WebDav, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, Rexec/RShell, Telnet, and more.
NEW: NetCmdlets V3 - This release includes
major usability and performance enhancements, as well as upgrades such as PowerShell V2 module support, enhanced pipelining,
persistent Cmdlet connections, and more! Download NetCmdlets V3 to check out all
of the exciting new features.
Cmdlets Currently Available
Using Windows PowerShell Server and NetCmdlets, System Administrators can easily script common network management tasks including router configuration, switch port monitoring, directory access, VLAN administration, remote execution, etc. The following cmdlets are currently available in this release:
| Certificate |
Create & manage X.509 digital certificates
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| Data |
Encoding and decoding utilities including Base64, SHA1, MD5, BinHex, and more.
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| DNS |
Retrieve DNS records (A, MX, PTR, TXT, NS, etc.)
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Send HTML emails with file attachments, supports SSL.
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| FTP |
FTP file transfer capabilities with advanced proxy and firewall support.
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| HTTP |
Web client Cmdlet with advanced proxy and firewall capabilities.
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| IM |
Send Jabber(XMPP) Instant messages.
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| IMAP |
Retrieve and manage messages, mailboxes and users in an IMAP server.
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| LDAP |
Access Active Directory or OpenLDAP servers through LDAP directory access.
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| MX |
Retrieve MX information and determine mail servers responsible for accepting mail for a specified address.
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| NNTP |
Command-line newsgroup browsing. Monitor newsgroup postings and post messages to newsgroup servers directly from PowerShell.
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| Packet |
Monitor network interface traffic.
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| Page |
Send SMS(SMPP) instant messages
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| Ping |
Network ping capability to monitor device availability.
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| POP |
Retrieve and manage messages in a POP server.
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| RAS |
Cmdlets for RAS connectivity.
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| Rexec |
Remote execution via Rexec.
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| Rshell |
Remote execution via Rshell.
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| RSS |
RSS client Cmdlet enables retrieval of RSS Syndicated content.
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| S3 |
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) storage and retrieval.
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| SFTP |
Command-line SFTP file transfer capabilities with SSH-secure encryption.
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| SMS |
Connect and send messages to any Internet SMS gateway.
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| SNMP |
Command-line SNMP Management capabilities. Manage network devices directly from PowerShell.
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| SSH |
Secure Shell enabled remote access Cmdlet.
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| Syslog |
Syslog server and client for LAN event monitoring and reporting.
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| TCP |
Straightforward TCP client Cmdlet.
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| Telnet |
Supports communication with remote servers through a command-line Telnet interface.
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| TFTP |
TFTP file transfer Cmdlet.
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| Time |
Access network time servers and synchronize machine clocks.
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| Trace |
Traceroute Cmdlet for determining the path of network packets between hosts.
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| Trap |
Monitor and send SNMP Traps.
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| UDP |
Send and receive UDP datagrams. Send Wake On LAN requests.
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| VPN |
Manage Windows VPN entries and programmatically create and destroy VPN connections.
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| WebDAV |
WebDav client Cmdlet.
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| Whois |
Domain name Whois lookup.
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| Zip |
Compressions and decompression Cmdlet supporting Zip, Tar, GZip, and Jar.
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