The pconsole is a very useful open source tool. It's like SunCluster cconsole and it's allow us to open parallel ssh connections. pconsole is available for installation from pkg.opensolaris.org/dev with IPS. Before to install pconsole you must have upgraded OpenSolaris to release 103 or later with this procedure. To Install pconsole run the followings commands as a super user:
# pkg search -r pconsole
INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE
description set pconsole pkg:/SUNWpconsole-AT-1.0-0-DOT-105
basename file usr/bin/pconsole pkg:/SUNWpconsole-AT-1.0-0-DOT-105
# pkg install SUNWpconsole
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The pconsole script has been designed to run pconsole in xterm. If you wish to run pconsole in a gnome terminal instead you can use pconsole-gnome script available for download here.
Download pconsole-gnome, copy it in /usr/bin/pconsole-gnome and allow to execute (chmod +x /usr/bin/pconsole-gnome) . In the following example I use pconsole-gnome to open 4 parallel ssh connections from my labtop to a 4 different opensolaris nodes. Then in the Gray gnome terminal I only run as a super user (with pexec) the script pconsole-gnome to open 4 parallels gnome terminal with ssh connections:
The pconsole-gnome syntax is :
pconsole-gnome -h
usage: pconsole-gnome '[user@]<hostname>[:port] [...]'
-h => help
-d => Debug
-t => Run pconsole in the current terminal