1OMNITTY MULTIPLE-MACHINE SSH MULTIPLEXER 2Copyright (c) 2004 Bruno T. C. de Oliveira 3Licensed under the GNU General Public License 4See the COPYING file for more details on the license terms. 5 6[[ AUTHOR AND PROJECT HOMEPAGE ]] 7This program was written by Bruno Takahashi C. de Oliveira, a 8Computer Science student at Universidade de S�o Paulo, Brazil. 9The project home page is: 10 11 http://omnitty.sourceforge.net 12 13[[ WHAT IS IT? ]] 14 15Omnitty is a curses-based program that allows one to log into several 16machines simultaneously and interact with them, selectively directing 17input to individual machines or groups of selected machines. You can run both 18line-oriented and screen oriented in the target machines, because Omnitty 19has built-in terminal emulation capability. When the terminal is large 20enough, Omnitty also displays a "summary area" for each machine, 21in which it shows what the latest output from the machine was. 22 23[[ REQUIREMENTS ]] 24 25To compile omnitty, you need libROTE (http://rote.sourceforge.net), 26ncurses and of course libc. 27 28[[ CONTRIBUTIONS ]] 29 30Thanks to the following people for their contributions to the project 31in the form of patches, suggestions, testing or otherwise: 32 33* Richard Palmer <richard.palmer@gmail.com> - for the patch that allows 34 the user to rename machines 35 36[[ MORE DETAILS ]] 37 38Multiple-host network administration usually involves running the same 39set of commands on several different machines. An administrator might 40ssh into each of the machines in his network individually to perform 41the required tasks, but the process soon becomes repetitive and 42prone to errors. Scripts might help in the case of noninteractive 43programs and when the administrator knows exactly what commands are 44to be given. Error handling in these scripts is also difficult to 45code, and the process becomes especially tedious if these tasks 46have to be done regularly. 47 48Omnitty tries to present a different approach to manipulating several 49machines remotely. It simultaneously logs you into all the machines you 50specify and then presents a screen in which you navigate through 51the list of machines. When you select a machine, its "terminal" is shown 52onscreen and they keypresses you type are sent to that machine while 53it is selected. The user may freely navigate the list, interacting 54with the machines in any order. 55 56Another feature is that you can 'tag' machines on the list and enter 57a mode where the input you provide is directed to ALL the machines 58you tagged, simultaneously. Thus you might tag all the machines in 59which you need to run a particular command and then type the command 60once to have all machines execute it. 61 62Omnitty not only works with regular commands, but also with visual 63programs. For example, you might run 'vi' remotely on several machines 64simultaneously, and every keystroke you supply will be reproduced 65in every machine you tagged. Thus you might interactively edit 66files in several machines at once. 67 68