Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManageriDRAC6 for Blade Servers Version 2.1

12 Contents

11 Configuring and Using

Serial Over LAN

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Enabling Serial Over LAN in the BIOS. . . . . . . . . 187

Configuring Serial Over LAN in

iDRAC6 Web GUI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Using Serial Over LAN (SOL)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Model for Redirecting SOL

Over Telnet or SSH

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Model for the SOL Proxy

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Model for Redirecting SOL Over IPMItool

. . . . 192

Disconnecting SOL session in

iDRAC6 Command Line Console

. . . . . . . . . 192

Using SOL over PuTTY

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Using SOL over Telnet with Linux

. . . . . . . . . 193

Using SOL over OpenSSH with Linux

. . . . . . . 194

Using SOL over IPMItool

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Opening SOL with SOL proxy

. . . . . . . . . . . 195

Operating System Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Linux Enterprise Operating System

. . . . . . . . 200

Windows 2003 Enterprise

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

12 Using GUI Console Redirection . . . . . . . 207

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Using Console Redirection

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Supported Screen Resolutions

and Refresh Rates

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Configuring the Management Station

. . . . . . 208

Configuring Console Redirection and

Virtual Media in iDRAC6 Web Interface

. . . . . 209

Opening a Console Redirection Session

. . . . . 211