IPMI
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| + | Since our dells don't do IPMI 2.0, we use a proprietary Dell extension to IPMI to do serial console. Dell implements this via a "serial-over-lan proxy" daemon, dsm_bmu_solproxy32d (installed on enlil). If it's not running, you can start it with | ||
| + | dsm_bmu_solproxy32d -daemon -b | ||
| + | You can then connect to it by running | ||
| + | telnet localhost 623 | ||
| + | This brings up its main screen. The rest should be pretty self-explanatory. Keep in mind that you need to use escape sequences to send F# keys and other keys. See http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smbmcmu/2.0A01/en/ug/bmcugacc.htm#wp1053626 F# keys can be accessed by <ESC> + # (use ! for 11, @ for 12, etc). So F2 would be <ESC>+2 | ||
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| + | The poweredge 860's support a maximum speed of 19200 baud. I know it's slow, sorry. | ||
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Revision as of 07:20, 26 August 2009
IPMI is a tool used for remote management of servers. It lets us do many tasks without physically going to the server to mess with it.
Contents |
Basics
Specifics
Poweredge 860's
Athena
SOLProxy
Since our dells don't do IPMI 2.0, we use a proprietary Dell extension to IPMI to do serial console. Dell implements this via a "serial-over-lan proxy" daemon, dsm_bmu_solproxy32d (installed on enlil). If it's not running, you can start it with
dsm_bmu_solproxy32d -daemon -b
You can then connect to it by running
telnet localhost 623
This brings up its main screen. The rest should be pretty self-explanatory. Keep in mind that you need to use escape sequences to send F# keys and other keys. See http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smbmcmu/2.0A01/en/ug/bmcugacc.htm#wp1053626 F# keys can be accessed by <ESC> + # (use ! for 11, @ for 12, etc). So F2 would be <ESC>+2
The poweredge 860's support a maximum speed of 19200 baud. I know it's slow, sorry.
