conman

The Console Manager

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 (eg, 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