Dell Poweredge 2950, IPMI and remote console

[Morten W. Petersen]

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Ryan,

right you are.  Well, I managed to figure out that ttyS1 is what will be
displayed when using sol activate.

However, if I do a sol activate and get access, and on the server for
example do "echo -n a > /dev/ttyS1" on the server which has IPMI, only
garbage is printed on the sol terminal.  Running getty in various modes
also fails with these character issues.

Got any suggestions?

- -Morten

Ryan Dooley wrote:
> Hi Morten,
> 
> Make sure you have a tty (agetty) or something attached to /dev/ttyS1
> and that you have console redirection to COM1 in the bios set.  You'll
> probably also want to have in your (grub) config a console=ttyS1
> statement as well when you boot.
> 
> After that, connect with ipmitool [] sol activate and hit return a time
> or two.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ryan
> 
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Morten W. Petersen
> <morten at nidelven-it.no <mailto:morten at nidelven-it.no>> wrote:
> 
> Hi :)
> 
> I have a PE 2950 which supports IPMI v 2.  What I'd like to do is get
> console access, using ipmitool.
> 
> "ipmitool [...] sol activate" works, but I guess I'm missing a piece of
> the puzzle, as it just gives me this:
> 
> [SOL Session operational.  Use ~? for help]
> ~?
>        Supported escape sequences:
>        ~.  - terminate connection
>        ~^Z - suspend ipmitool
>        ~^X - suspend ipmitool, but don't restore tty on restart
>        ~B  - send break
>        ~?  - this message
>        ~~  - send the escape character by typing it twice
>        (Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after
> newline.)
> SOL session closed by BMC
> 
> Any tips?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Morten

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