mRemoteNG Review

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Review of mRemoteNG powered by the Slant community.

mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote: an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. mRemoteNG adds bug fixes and new features to mRemote.
It allows you to view all of your remote connections in a simple yet powerful tabbed interface.

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Pros

Pro
It's free

Open source.

Pro
Import/Export feature

Allows to share connections.

Pro
Can open multiple sessions in different tabs

Pro
Connection manager

Lets you organize your connections into folders with icons as well and allows nested folders as well.

Pro
Supports multiple protocols

RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)
VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)
SSH (Secure Shell)
Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)
HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
rlogin
Raw Socket Connections

Pro
Inheritance from folder properties

Inheritance makes it possible to store properties on folder basis and let the underlying connections inherit this info.

Cons

Con
Private keys needs to be managed on PuTTY

Since mRemoteNG is integrated with PuTTY (included in the installation), all private key needs to be configured on PuTTY itself and then the PuTTY session needs to be selected on mRemoteNG.