DRAC on R710: serial console

[Andrew Robert Nicols]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:01:12PM +0100, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> Thanks very much for the pointer to the documentation, but, if I understand
> this correctly, it means the DRAC 6 cards do not have this functionality.
> To clarify what I am saying, when a machine has a DRAC 5 card, I can
> ssh into this card and give the command
> 
>      connect com2
> 
> for example.  This gives me a line-mode interface to the serial console.
> Thus I can, without having to use a web browser, get a virtual console
> which allows me to change BIOS settings, boot the machine with special
> parameters at boot time, etc.  As far as I can see, I can't do this
> with a DRAC 6 card on a poweredge 710; I was asking whether this is
> correct or not.

I can do this with an iDRAC 6 Enterprise on an R610. Haven't got any other
version of iDRAC6 to test on.

That is to say, I can ssh into the iDRAC through it's dedicated NIC, and
run connect com2 to follow what's happening during boot time etc.

I had to set the BIOS console settings to using com2. Can't remember the
exact settings but if anyone can shed some light on this, I'd be glad to
hear how you can have the iDRAC serial and the physical serial doing the
same thing so that we can use our serial console server *and* iDRAC.

Andrew

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