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ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users.

Supported console types:

• Local serial devices
• Remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol)
• IPMI Serial-Over-LAN (via FreeIPMI's libipmiconsole)
• External processes (e.g., Expect)
• Unix domain sockets

Features:

• Mapping symbolic names to console devices
• Logging (and optionally timestamping) console output to file
• Connecting to a console in monitor (R/O) or interactive (R/W) mode
• Connecting to multiple consoles for broadcasting (W/O) client output
• Sharing a console session amongst multiple simultaneous clients
• Allowing clients to share or steal console "write" privileges
• Executing Expect scripts across multiple consoles in parallel