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 While performing console redirection through SOL Proxy, you may see a few garbled characters. This occurs while
the SOL Proxy server refreshes the screen.
 You can verify your redirected output by using the same telnet client over the serial port to ensure that your
telnet client supports console redirection features. If you see the same garbled text through the serial port, you
may use another telnet client for better performance.
 If you issue the graceful shutdown command using SOL Proxy option 4 (Reboot and Activate Console Redirection)
on a system running Microsoft Windows 2000 with an ACPI-compliant BIOS, Windows performs an emergency
shutdown instead of a graceful shutdown. Windows does not send WM_QUERYENDSESSION and WM_ENDSESSION
messages to the running programs; therefore, the programs cannot notify the user to save data and quit gracefully.
This could result in data corruption or data loss.
 Storage controllers from PERC 4 and earlier use CTRL+M to enter configuration during BIOS POST. This is the same
ASCII value normally set by the ENTER key. In a SOL session, CTRL+M will not behave as expected during boot. Use
ESC+CTRL+M to enter PERC 4 setup.
Alternate key strokes are provided as BIOS starts up for a number of special keys. See the " Dell OpenManage
Baseboard Management Controller Utilities User's Guide " for the complete list.
 If you get the message "already installed" when trying to install the ipmitool Linux .rpm file, use the --force option.
For example, rpm -Uvh --force <rpm filename>
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