HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Guide

To use the iLO 2 Text Console feature successfully, you must update the HOST ROM. iLO 2 supports
iLO 2 Text Console on the following HP ProLiant servers:
• BL685c G6• DL380 G6• SE326 M1• ML350 G5
• BL280c G6• DL360 G6• DL320 G6• ML370 G5
• BL460c G6• BL2x220c G6• ML330 G6• DL360 G5
• BL460c G1• ML/DL 370 G6• DL380 G5
• BL480c G1• DL785 G6• DL580 G5
• BL680c G5• ML350 G6• SE316 M1
Using the iLO 2 Text Console
To start an iLO 2 Text Console session:
1. Start an SSH or Telnet session.
Be sure the terminal application character encoding is set to Western (ISO-8859-1).
2. Log in to iLO 2.
3. At the prompt, enter Textcons.
A message indicating that the iLO 2 Text Console software is initiating appears.
To exit a iLO 2 Text Console and return to the CLI session, press the ESC ( keys simultaneously.
Customizing iLO 2 Text Console
When starting iLO 2 Text Console, use the Textcons command options and arguments to customize
the operation of the display. In general, you do not need to change these options.
• Controlling rate of sampling
You can use the Textcons speed option to indicate in milliseconds the between sampling
periods. A sampling period is where the iLO 2 firmware examines screen changes and updates
the iLO 2 Text Console. Adjusting the speed can alleviate unnecessary traffic on long or slow
network links, reduce the bandwidth used, and reduce iLO 2 CPU time consumed. Reasonable
values are between 1 and 5000 (1ms to 5 seconds). For example:
Textcons speed 500
• Controlling smoothing
iLO 2 attempts to only transmits data when it changes and becomes stable on the screen. If
a line of the text screen is constantly changing faster than iLO 2 can sample the change, the
line is not be transmitted until it becomes stable. For example, during an ls -R of a large
file-system, the physical monitor displays text more rapidly than it can be interpreted. The
same is true for a iLO 2 Text Console session. In this case, the data appears rapidly, and is
essentially indecipherable. In this case however, the data is transmitted by iLO 2 across the
network and consuming bandwidth. The default behavior is smoothing (delay 0) which only
transmits data when the changes become stable on the screen. You can control or disable
smoothing feature using the delay option. For example:
Textcons speed 500 delay 10
• Controlling international keyboard support
When using iLO 2 Text Console, iLO 2 can emulate character mapping between the client,
Telnet, and the server. The default mapping is the USB 101-keyboard translation (or no
translation).
iLO 2 Remote Console 97