Users Guide

Contents 11
9 Configuring and Using Serial
Over LAN
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Enabling Serial Over LAN in the BIOS. . . . . . . . . . 197
Configuring Serial Over LAN in iDRAC6 Web GUI
. . . 198
Using Serial Over LAN (SOL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Model for Redirecting SOL Over
Telnet or SSH
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Model for the SOL Proxy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Model for Redirecting SOL Over IPMItool
. . . . . 201
Disconnecting SOL session in iDRAC6
Command Line Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Using SOL over PuTTY
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Using SOL over Telnet with Linux. . . . . . . . . . 203
Using SOL over OpenSSH with Linux
. . . . . . . . 203
Using SOL over IPMItool
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Opening SOL with SOL proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Operating System Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Linux Enterprise Operating System
. . . . . . . . . 210
Windows 2003 Enterprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
10 Using GUI Virtual Console . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Using Virtual Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Clear Your Browser’s Cache
. . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Supported Screen Resolutions and
Refresh Rates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Configuring the Management Station
. . . . . . . 221
Configuring Virtual Console and
Virtual Media in iDRAC6 Web Interface . . . . . . 222