pe840 drac4 serial access?

[John McMonagle]

I have no problem with drac5. I have a 2950 and it works just fine.
For that matter I just reinstalled onto a  2650 with drac3 and it works 
with no problems.
In that  case I just do a "connect video" after  telneting in.

Odd thing in this drac4 "connect video" is not available. I have a 
couple other  drac4s  but they are  installs with an older openmanage 
and have "connect video" available.

The annoying thing is after  after doing a connect  com2  or com1 the 
escape does not work and the only way to get out of it is to reset the drac.

As this is a new box suppose I should call support.
Was hopping to avoid the support lottery :(

John



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Linux PowerEdge wrote:

>I've not had direct experience with the PE840/DRAC4 but here's what
>I've been using on PE2950/DRAC5.  I have not configured a DRAC4 serial
>console redirection in about a year but when I moved to the DRAC5 I
>only needed to make slight modifications (if any) to get the same
>serial console redirection through it using "connect com2" so
>hopefully you will find this helpful if nothing else than for
>reference.
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>This config is what works for the RHEL-based distros; hopefully it'll
>translate easily for your debian installation.
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>>Here's what i use.  maybe you can get some use out of it too.
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>>I've configured the appropriate settings to perform serial console
>>redirection to the drac.  with that i can ssh to the drac and run
>>'connect com2' to see the serial console (BIOS, grub, and OS level).
>>also, once ssh into the DRAC you can manage it using 'racadm' commands
>>(i use it for power management on/off/cycle of the system).
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>>The serial config on support.dell's documentation didnt seem to be
>>100% so here's what i ended up with for my systems:
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>>BIOS:
>>      on with console redirection via com2
>>      remote access device
>>      57600
>>      vt100/vt220
>>      enabled
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>>DRAC:
>>      racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialBaudRate 57600
>>      racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialConsoleEnable 1
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>>grub.conf:
>>      serial --unit=0 --speed=57600
>>      terminal --timeout=10 console serial
>>      #splashimage ...
>>      #hiddenmenu
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>>      kernel ... console=ttyS1,57600 console=tty0
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>>inittab:
>>      s1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS1 57600
>>
>>securetty:
>>      ttyS1
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>>racadm command guide:
>>http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/drac5/OM5.2/en/ug/racugaa.htm#wp30007
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>>with the above, i dont even worry about the "graphical" console
>>redirection using the drac5 web service.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
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>On Jan 28, 2008 4:20 PM, John McMonagle <johnm at advocap.org> wrote:
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>>Have a new pe840 with drac4 .
>>Using debian etch. I installed the debian openmanage  5.3.0-9 package.
>>That seems to be working.
>>Have the rac serial set like this:
>>#  racadm getconfig -g cfgSerial
>>cfgSerialBaudRate=57600
>>cfgSerialConsoleEnable=1
>>cfgSerialConsoleQuitKey=<CR>~.
>>cfgSerialConsoleIdleTimeout=0x12c
>>cfgSerialConsoleShellType=0x2
>>cfgSerialConsoleNoAuth=0
>>cfgSerialConsoleCommand=
>>cfgSerialTelnetEnable=1
>>cfgSerialCom2RedirEnable=1
>>cfgSerialTelnet7fIsBackspace=0
>>cfgSerialSshEnable=1
>>cfgSerialHistorySize=0x2000
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>>I tried with and without getty on ttyS1
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>>The web console does work but want to get text mode acces via connecting
>>to the drac and connect com2 and/or ipmi sol.
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>>On an older drac4 box noticed that this is running
>>"/opt/dell/srvadmin/rac/bin/racsvc -d /dev/ttyS1"
>>But I see no racsvc or racadm for that matter?
>>
>>John
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