Users Guide

Introduction 13
IPMI Shell Over the Serial Cable
If you plan to use the BMC Management Utility’s IPMI Shell to access your system’s BMC over a serial
cable, you must follow the BMC configuration guidelines listed in Table 1-4.
NOTE: Console redirection does not apply to BMC when using the serial interface.
Table 1-4. BMC Serial Configuration Guidelines
Features Connection
Medium
BMC Configuration Tools Basic Configuration Tasks Management
Tools
• Interactive
mode
• Remote SEL
access
• Power control
•System
identification
•System
information
• Access the
BMC of the
remote system
Accessed
through the
serial channel by
using a null
modem cable
• BIOS (pre-operating system
environment)
• Deployment Toolkit (pre-
operating system
environment)
• Server Administrator (to
enable BMC serial only)
1 Configure Serial Port 1 to
BMC Serial
NOTE: This option is available
only on Dell PowerEdge x8xx
systems.
2 Configure External Serial
Connector to Remote
Access
NOTE: This option is available
only on Dell PowerEdge x9xx
systems.
3 Set Serial baud rate to
match the rate to be used by
the management tool
4 Set BMC Serial Connection
Mode to Basic for IPMI
Shell or Terminal for
Terminal emulation
5 Configure BMC users
•IPMI Shell
(Basic
mode)
•Terminal
emulation
(Terminal
mode only)