Setting up SecureCRT – Change Default Appearance + Auto-create Log File On Connect
This is just a collection of convenient settings I’ve found elsewhere on the Internet. SecureCRT is a nice little piece of software to have in sitting on your laptop to connect to console/Telnet/SSH sessions you frequent/etc. Some of the settings I’d prefer to change from the default, mainly around appearance and with it not automatically creating a log file on connect.
Change Default Appearance
To change the default colour theme do the following:
- Go to Options > Global Options
- Under General > Default Session on left
- Click Edit Default Settings
- Navigate to Appearance in left pane
- Select the desired Color Theme in the drop down box
Turn on Auto-Create Log with Automatic Log File Name
To setup SecureCRT to log everything (trust me, it’s useful from time to time)… pretty much follow the first 3 steps above then:
- Navigate to Log File in left pane
- Under the Log File Name entry box, type in the path and name of the log file to use. For me I said the following: “C:\Console Logs\%Y-%M-%D.%h:%m – %H — %S.txt“
The % variables are all listed in the help file as follows:
- %H – hostname
- %S – session name
- %Y – four-digit year
- %M – two-digit month
- %D – two-digit day of the month
- %h – two-digit hour
- %m – two-digit minute
- %s – two-digit seconds
- %t – three-digit milliseconds
- %% – percent (%)
- %envvar% – environment variable
