ConMan

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. The project 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 Serial-Over-LAN).

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, and broadcasting client output to multiple consoles.

Features:

• 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

What is new in this release:

• Concurrency bugs were fixed in IPMI SOL connections.
• Support was added for IPMI SOL cipher suite IDs, privilege levels, and workaround flags.
• Support was added for disabling fcntl locks on console log files.
• Note that configuring "--with-freeipmi" now requires freeipmi-1.0.4 or later.

What is new in version 0.2.5:

• Fixed bug with consoles trapped in downed state causing poll loop to spin.
• Added 'server coredump' & 'server coredumpdir' config directives.

What is new in version 0.2.4.1:

• Fixed builds with gcc-4.4 on Fedora 11.

What is new in version 0.2.4:

• Added support for FreeIPMI.
• Added console scripts for Sun ELOM and Sun Fire V20z/V40z.
• Changed conmen cmdline opts: '-G' xterm geometry, '-g' genders nodeattr.

What is new in version 0.2.2:

• Support was added for connecting to consoles via Unix domain sockets, along with detecting Unix domain socket devices via inotify.
• The "&E" client escape sequence was added to toggle echoing of client input.
• The HP iLO console script was added, and the IBM BladeCenter console script was updated.