ConMan: The Console Manager

Introduction

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It supports local serial devices, remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol), and external processes (e.g., using Expect to control connections over telnet, ssh, or ipmi-sol).

Its features include:

• logging (and optionally timestamping) console device output to file
• connecting to consoles in monitor (R/O) or interactive (R/W) mode
• allowing clients to share or steal console write privileges
• broadcasting client output to multiple consoles

Documentation

• Manual Pages
• Supported Platforms

News

Recent ConMan news, including release announcements, is posted on the news page. To receive announcements by email, subscribe to the conman-announce mailing list or the freshmeat project listing.

Support

Questions, feature requests, and bug reports can be sent to the conman-users mailing list.

Download

ConMan releases can be obtained from the download page. Changes between releases can be found in the release notes. Releases are signed with a GPG key.

Copyright

Written by Chris Dunlap <cdunlap@llnl.gov>.
Copyright © 2007 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
Copyright © 2001-2007 The Regents of the University of California.

ConMan is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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