The conspy is a tool for displaying and operating console via SSH. This is useful for remote server which has a monitor but not keyboard. You can run monitoring tool like top and glances which will display on monitor without keyboard.
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1 Install conspy
Install conspy in remote server.
$ sudo yum install -y epel-release $ sudo yum install -y conspy
1.1 Build and install conspy
If monitor resolution is large, the following error is occured.
conspy: screen too large. I only handle up to 200x80.
The conspy 1.14 will resolve this issue. Download conspy 1.14 src.rpm from conspy site, build and install conspy 1.14.
$ sudo yum install -y rpmdevtools
$ C=https://sourceforge.net/projects/conspy/files/conspy-1.14-1
$ wget ${C}/conspy-1.14-1ras.src.rpm
$ sudo yum-builddep -y conspy-1.14-1ras.src.rpm
$ rpmbuild --rebuild conspy-1.14-1ras.src.rpm
$ sudo yum localinstall -y rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/conspy-1.14-1ras.x86_64.rpm
2 Usage of conspy
Run "sudo conspy".
$ sudo conspy
Yellow is a terminal which runs "sudo conspy" via SSH. White is a virt-viewer which displays tty1.
Press Esc 3 times for escaping conspy.