Conserver 8.1.14 review

Conserver is an application that allows multiple users to watch a serial console at the same time

License: BSD License File size: 301K Developer: Bryan Stansell

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Conserver is an application that allows multiple users to watch a serial console at the same time. Conserver project can log the data, allows users to take write-access of a console (one at a time), and has a variety of bells and whistles to accentuate that basic functionality.

The idea is that conserver will log all your serial traffic so you can go back and review why something crashed, look at changes (if done on the console), or tie the console logs into a monitoring system (just watch the logfiles it creates).

With multi-user capabilities you can work on equipment with others, mentor, train, etc. It also does all that client-server stuff so that, assuming you have a network connection, you can interact with any of the equipment from home or wherever.

Here's a list of systems that I've been told can successfully compile conserver. If anyone has more to add to this list (or something on the list doesn't work any more), please let me know.

AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2, native cc
BSDI BSD/OS 3.X, gcc
Cygwin (w2k),gcc 2.95.3
DEC Tru64 4.0, gcc
DEC Tru64 4.0/5.1, native cc
FreeBSD 4.2/4.8/5.1 (x86), gcc
HP-UX 10.20, gcc
HP-UX 11.10 parisc and ia64, native cc
Irix 6.15, native cc
Linux 2.2.18 (x86), gcc
Linux 2.4.2 (x86), gcc
Linux ia64, native gcc
Linux RedHat 6.2 and 7.2 (x86), native gcc
MacOS X, native gcc
Solaris 2.5.1 thru 9 (sparc/x86), gcc
Solaris 7/8, native cc