ToolTip: Port Listener

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:14:30 +0000

Today I want to share with you a nice FREE tool I’ve just used recently while troubleshooting some networking issues on one of our customers network. The problem I had was that I couldn’t get my backend infrastructure talk to the client and vise versa. To keep this post generic I won’t use any products name, but both the backend and client that has an agent require that some ports are open in either one or both ways.

ToolTip: Citrix Port Check (CtxPrtChk.exe)

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:22:37 +0000

Here’s a nice small and FREE utility from Citrix that allows you to test connectivity to a remote host on a specified port. In the example below I test if port 5900 (used for VNC) is open and listening.

Download CtxPrtChk from here

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ToolTip: Port Listener

ToolTip: Citrix Port Check (CtxPrtChk.exe)