comms/conserver 8.3.0p0 OpenBSD

This program provides a convenient way to manage remote consoles.

The conserver(8) daemon maintains persistent connections to consoles, either to a local serial port, via a network connection to a terminal server, via a UNIX domain socket, by running a command, or (with the "ipmi" flavor) via IPMI serial-over-lan. It can also write logfiles, and restrict access based on user/group (read, read/write, none).

User access is done with console(1) - this allows standard terminal commands including sending BREAK signals, and can replay output from before you connected.

By default conserver<>console connections are done via a unix-domain socket, but in a larger installation, the "net" flavor can be used to do this over a TCP+TLS connection to another host - in that case, conserver(8) instances on multiple servers can be clustered.

Flavors:

net - use network sockets for conserver<>console and to allow conserver<>conserver connections.

ipmi - build with internal support for IPMI serial-over-lan