diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c42a300e..a75c6a9a 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The Application Developmers Guide is the best document to read first.
 - **cp_shell**
     - Web interface for running linux shell commands.
 - **cli_sample**
-    - Includes cppxssh module that enables SSH access to local CLI to send commands and return output.
+    - Includes csterm module that enables access to local CLI to send commands and return output.
 - **ipverify_custom_action**
     - Create a custom action in a function to be called when an IPverify test status changes.
 - **cpu_usage**
diff --git a/cli_sample/cli_sample.py b/cli_sample/cli_sample.py
index c194a7b6..07cb9678 100644
--- a/cli_sample/cli_sample.py
+++ b/cli_sample/cli_sample.py
@@ -1,37 +1,16 @@
 # cli - execute CLI command and return output
 
-from csclient import EventingCSClient
-
-
-def cli(username, password, cmd):
-    """
-    :param username: string
-        username for SSH login
-    :param password: string
-        user password for SSH login
-    :param cmd: string
-        CLI command to execute
-        Example: "sms 2081234567 'hello world' int1"
-        Example: "arpdump"
-    :return: string
-        Text output returned from CLI command
-    """
-    import cppxssh
-    ssh_tunnel = cppxssh.cppxssh()
-    ssh_tunnel.login('localhost', username, password, auto_prompt_reset=False)
-    ssh_tunnel.PROMPT = '\[[0-9A-Za-z_]+@.+\]\$ '
-    ssh_tunnel.sendline(cmd)
-    ssh_tunnel.prompt()
-    output = ssh_tunnel.before.decode()
-    del ssh_tunnel
-    try:
-        # try to remove the command echo
-        return output.split(cmd + '\r\n')[1]
-    except IndexError:
-        # for some reason we failed to remove so return original
-        return output
+import time
 
+from csclient import EventingCSClient
+from csterm import CSTerm
 
 cp = EventingCSClient('cli_sample')
+ct = CSTerm(cp)
 cp.log('Starting...')
-cp.log('Output:\n' + cli('admin', '11', 'arpdump'))
+while True:
+    # use ct.exec followed by CLI command to execute
+    # Example: "sms 2081234567 'hello world' int1"
+    # Example: "arpdump"
+    cp.log('Output:\n' + ct.exec('arpdump'))
+    time.sleep(10)
diff --git a/cli_sample/csterm.py b/cli_sample/csterm.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f24024d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli_sample/csterm.py
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import random
+import time
+import re
+
+
+class CSTerm:
+    INTERVAL = 0.3 # how often to poll for output, faster can sometimes miss output
+
+    def __init__(self, csclient, timeout=10, soft_timeout=5, user=None):
+        """
+        :param csclient: csclient.EventingCSClient
+            csclient object to use for communication
+        :param timeout: int
+            absolute maximum number of seconds to wait for output (default 10)
+        :param soft_timeout: int
+            number of seconds to wait for output before sending interrupt (default 5)
+        """
+        self.c = csclient
+        self.timeout = timeout
+        self.soft_timeout = soft_timeout
+        self.s_id = "term-%s" % random.randint(100000000, 999999999)
+        self.user = user
+    
+    def exec(self, cmds, clean=True):
+        """
+        :param cmds: list or string
+            list of commands to execute or single command to execute
+        :param clean: bool
+            if True, remove terminal escape sequences from output
+        :return: string
+            Text output returned from CLI command
+        """
+        cmds = cmds if isinstance(cmds, list) else [cmds]
+        cmds = [c + '\n' for c in cmds]
+        timeout = self.timeout * (1 / self.INTERVAL)
+        soft_timeout = self.soft_timeout * (1 / self.INTERVAL)
+
+        k = iter(cmds)
+        kp = next(k)
+        r = ''
+        while timeout > 0:
+
+            self.c.put("/control/csterm/%s" % self.s_id, self._k(kp))
+            rp = self.c.get("/control/csterm/%s" % self.s_id)
+
+            r += rp['k']
+            # the output generally will end with a prompt and no newline, so we can check for that
+            # after we've sent all our commands
+            if kp == "" and not r.endswith('\n'):
+                break
+
+            kp = next(k, None) or ""
+            timeout-=1
+            time.sleep(self.INTERVAL)
+            if timeout < soft_timeout:
+                self.c.put("/control/csterm/%s" % self.s_id, self._k('\x03'))
+                rp = self.c.get("/control/csterm/%s" % self.s_id)
+                r += rp['k']
+                soft_timeout = 0
+
+        # remove the prompt and any terminal escape sequences
+        if clean:
+            r = re.sub(r'(?:\x1B[@-Z\\-_]|[\x80-\x9A\x9C-\x9F]|(?:\x1B\[|\x9B)[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~])','', r)
+            r = r.split('\n')
+            prompt = r[-1]
+            r = [l for l in r if not l.startswith(prompt)]
+            r = "\n".join(r)
+
+        return r
+
+    def _k(self, v):
+        r = {"k": v}
+        if self.user:
+            r["u"] = self.user
+        return r
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import sys
+    from csclient import EventingCSClient
+
+    c = EventingCSClient('cli_sample')
+    ct = CSTerm(c, user="admin")
+    print(ct.exec(sys.argv[1:]))
diff --git a/cli_sample/package.ini b/cli_sample/package.ini
index eef1bc69..21a67c95 100644
--- a/cli_sample/package.ini
+++ b/cli_sample/package.ini
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ reboot = true
 auto_start = true
 version_major = 1
 version_minor = 0
+version_patch = 1
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diff --git a/cli_sample/readme.txt b/cli_sample/readme.txt
index aa288dbb..1cd8fa62 100755
--- a/cli_sample/readme.txt
+++ b/cli_sample/readme.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ cli_sample
 
 Application Version
 ===================
-1.0
+1.0.1
 
 
 NCOS Devices Supported
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ None
 
 Application Purpose
 ===================
-Includes cppxssh module that enables SSH access to local CLI to send commands and return output.  Example sends "arpdump".
+Includes a csterm.py library that uses csclient control tree access to local CLI to send commands and return output.  Example sends "arpdump".
 
 Expected Output
 ===============
@@ -32,4 +32,36 @@ Expected Output
 	ethernet primarylan1 STALE     14:b1:c8:01:59:09 fe80::1cd1:9ffa:135:3ed4
 	ethernet primarylan1 STALE     14:b1:c8:01:59:09 fe80::18d5:408e:d760:2e39
 
+Notes
+====
+csterm.py is a useful utility for interacting with the NCOS CLI.  The usage is straight forward:
+To run a single command:
+    c = EventingCSClient('cli_sample')
+    ct = CSTerm(c)
+    ct.exec("arpdump")
 
+Multiple commands can be run by passing a list of commands:
+    ct.exec(["clients", "arpdump"])
+
+An instance of CSTerm invokes a single CLI session, similar to SSHing into the device. Besides
+sending a list of commands into exec, you can execute exec multiple times to send multiple commands
+
+    ct.exec("clients")
+    ct.exec("wan")
+    ct.exec("arpdump")
+
+Intuitively, it's then possible to automate a workflow. Here's an example using NCOS ssh client 
+to SSH into a local machine and run a command:
+
+    ct.exec(["ssh user@host", # ssh into host
+             "yes", # respond 'yes' to accept host key
+             "password", # respond with password
+             "cd workflow", # change directory
+             "ls", # list files
+             "exit"]) # exit ssh session to return back to NCOS cli
+
+You can adjust some of the timers for CSTerm:
+ct = CSTerm(c, timeout=10, soft_timeout=5)
+Timeout is the absolute timeout when running a command, soft_timeout is the timeout for sending
+a "ctrl+c" to the console to terminate the running command.  The default values are
+10 and 5 seconds respectively.
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