Specifications

Operation and Maintenance

Establishing a SOL session

Prerequisite:ThisprocedureassumesthattherequiredsetupforIPMI‐over‐LANhasbeen

doneonceforthisCPM.Fordetails,seeConfiguringIPMI‐over‐LANaccessonpage 63.

One-time SOL configuration steps

ThefollowingtwostepsconfiguretheCPMforSOL:

1. IntheCPMBIOSSetup,changetheactiveserialporttoCOM1,asfollows:

AdvancedSettings>SerialPort1Configuration>Serialport:Enabled

2. SettheLinuxconsoleparameterstoCOM1(ttyS1)tosupportSOL.

Toconfigureretrysettingsfromaremotecomputer:

Important:Fortheseone‐timesteps,usetheRadisys‐suppliedrsys‐ipmitoolutility.

3. ConfiguretheretriestokeepSOLsessionsopenforaBaseinterfaceIPaddress.

rsys‐ipmitool‐I<protocol>‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0solsetretry‐interval0xF0

rsys‐ipmitool‐I<protocol>‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0solsetretry‐count7

Foranexplanationof<protocol>and<IP>,seeBeforeyoubeginonpage 63.

4. RepeatStep toconfigureretriesfortheotherBaseinterfaceIPaddress.

5. ViewtheretrysettingsforaBaseinterfaceIPaddress.

rsys‐ipmitool‐I<protocol>‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0solinfo

Theretrycountshouldbe7,andtheretryintervalshouldbe2400ms.

6. RepeatStep 5toverifyaccesstotheremaininginterfaceIPaddresses.

7. TheSOLpayloadisdisabledbydefault.Enterthefollowingcommandtoenableit:

rsys‐ipmitool‐Ilanplus‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0solpayloadenable

Note:ForproperSOLoperationduringBIOSPOSTandatOSruntime,theBIOSconsole,OS

console,andSOLbaudratesmustallagree.ThedefaultSOLparametersincludea38400baud

rateinsteadofthedefaultBIOSconsoleredirectionbaudrateof115200.The38400baudrate

mightbebetter

atavoidingcharacterdropsduringaSOLsession.

8. Boththevolatileandnon‐volatilebitratesmustbesettothesamevalue.Enterthe

followingcommandstosetthebaudrateto115200:

rsys‐ipmitool‐Ilanplus‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0solsetnon‐volatile‐bit‐rate115.2

rsys‐ipmitool‐Ilanplus‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0solsetvolatile‐bit‐rate115.2