First, let me apologize for this question -- I really should do more searches before asking, but I wasn't sure on what to call this tool that I wanted. So I didn't know exactly how to search

Anyway, here's my situation:

We can log into our propietary machines via a console port. I use the output of this port in my perl tool to monitor activities, especially core dumps.

The console port only allows one telnet session to be attatched to it, but I also have to let other users access the console so that they can issue commands to the machine when the console is the only means to access the machine.

So basically I need a software which allows multiple users to connect to the same console port and share the output from the console, so that I can keep monitoring it while others do whatever they want with the console.

I just feel like this is something that others might have gone though, and that there should be a software for it. Do you guys know of anything like this out there? At least, if you kow what this is generally called, please let me know, and I'll search for it

Thanks in advance

In reply to Share a console? by lestrrat

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