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)
• IPMI Serial-Over-LAN (via FreeIPMI)
• Unix domain sockets
• external processes (e.g., using Expect for telnet / ssh / ipmi-sol connections)

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.

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.

License

Written by Chris Dunlap <cdunlap@llnl.gov>.
Copyright © 2007-2009 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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