SecureCRT Button Command Suite - Full NOC Automation Pack

Show commands don’t kill you. Volume does. In a NOC or enterprise environment, you run the same thirty commands on every call - show interface, show bgp summary, show crypto isakmp sa - and the manual typing is just tax on the actual work. I built this to stop paying it.

This is a SecureCRT button bar configuration: 200+ commands across 13 sections, platform-tagged for IOS/IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS, ASA, and FTD/FMC - one click per command, nothing to remember or mis-type under pressure.

What’s included

Thirteen sections covering the full stack of what comes up on a typical day:

Session Essentials - terminal width, logging sync, timestamps, paging control, common session setup
L2 - interface status, MAC tables, STP state, port-channels, CDP/LLDP neighbors
L3 - routing table, interface IPs, ARP, ping/traceroute templates
OSPF - neighbor state, database, LSA details, process summary
EIGRP - neighbor table, topology, route counts, protocol stats
BGP - summary, neighbor detail, advertised/received routes, path attributes
VRF / MPLS - per-VRF routing tables, label forwarding, LDP neighbors, VPN routes
High Availability - HSRP/VRRP state, failover status, redundancy groups
Firewall / ASA - interface brief, NAT translations, access-list hits, conn table, xlate
FTD - platform detail, interface diagnostics, FTD-specific show commands
NX-OS Specific - feature status, VDC info, fabric forwarding, VXLAN/EVPN, NX-OS-tagged commands
Diagnostics - CPU/memory, process lists, logging buffer, debug scaffolding
Maintenance - clear counters, reload, write mem, archive commands (with appropriate warnings)

Color-coding

Every button is colored by risk so you can move fast without second-guessing yourself:

Green - read-only. Show commands and display operations. No side effects, safe to run at any time.

Yellow - clear/diagnostic. Clears counters, resets stats, runs debugs. Changes operational state but doesn’t touch config or cause an outage.

Red - destructive. Reloads, erases, clears crypto sessions. Requires intent. Color is the pause before you click.

The mental model is traffic light: green without hesitation, yellow with awareness, red with a reason.

Using it

Import the button bar XML into SecureCRT via View - Button Bar - Manage Button Bar, then load the file. Buttons appear at the top of the session window. Each one sends the command to the active session - works across multiple tabs simultaneously if you need to run the same show command across several devices.

The sections are ordered by how often I reach for them on a real call, not alphabetically.