User's Manual

16 Introduction
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
Too lki t
(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, xx0x, and
xx1x systems.
• IPMI Shell
(Basic
mode)
•Terminal
emulation
(Terminal
mode
only)