User's Manual

Introduction 17
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 and xx0x
systems.
• IPMI Shell
(Basic
mode)
• Terminal
emulation
(Terminal
mode
only)