Specifications

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Establishing a SOL session
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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 62.
One-time SOL configuration steps
Important:Fortheseone‐timesteps,usetheRadiSys‐suppliedrsys‐ipmitoolutility.
Toconfigureretrysettingsfromaremotecomputer:
1. ConfiguretheretriestokeepSOLsessionsopenforaBase,front,orrear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 62.
2. RepeatStep 1toconfigureretriesfortheotherBaseinterfaceIPaddressandthefront
orrearinterfaceIPaddress.
3. ViewtheretrysettingsforaBase,front,orrear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.
4. RepeatStep 3toverifyaccesstotheremaininginterfaceIPaddresses.
SOL session open steps
ToopenaSOLsessionfromaremotecomputer:
1. ActivatetheSOLconsolewindow:
rsys‐ipmitool‐I<protocol>‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0solactivate
TheSOLsessionisestablished.IfacableisattachedtotheCPMfrontpanelserialport,
theSOLwindowisread‐only.Itisread‐writeifnocableisattached.
2. Performanaction(suchaspressingEnter)fromthelocalserialconsoleifaserialcable
isattached,or
fromtheSOLconsolewindowifnocableisattached.
TheSOLconsolewindowshouldrespond.
SOL session close step
Note:OnlyoneSOLsessioncanbeopenatatimetoasingleCPM.
ToterminateaSOLsessiondirectlyfromtheactiveSOLwindow,enterthesecharacters:
~.
ToterminateaSOLsessionfromanotherwindow,enter:
rsys‐ipmitool‐I<protocol>‐H<IP>‐Anone‐C0soldeactivate