Dell Poweredge 2950, IPMI and remote console

[Mircea Vutcovici]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Morten W. Petersen
<morten at nidelven-it.no> wrote:
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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.

Have you tried to change the speed of the ttyS1 to match the one
specified in the IPMI/BMC configuration?

>
> 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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