Dell Poweredge 2950, IPMI and remote console

[Ryan Dooley]

Yes, that would have been the next thing I mentioned.  I run all my sol 
consoles at 57600 so here is my configuration from /etc/inittab:

  co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS1 57600 vt100-nav

I don't have the dell deployment tools installed in the box on I'm 
looking at (and I have dell do a custom bios before delivery) which sets 
com1 to 57600.  I think you should be able to set that though with DTK.

Cheers,
Ryan

> 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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