Hi Tudor,
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 09:12 +1100, Tudor Holton wrote: > Hi, > > I've had mixed success with the various IPMI tools, but the > freeipmi-tools seem to work best with an IBM x3250 M2 I've been handed > to play with. I've managed to do various things with bmc-config. > > However, I'm really stuck at using the Serial-Over-Lan console. > > If I do: > ipmiconsole -h <bmc-ip> > > I get: > [SOL Established] > and it hangs as if waiting for me to do something. The SOL connection is established, but something else appears to be prohibiting proper console output from happening. > I've read enough to know that this isn't an error. I presume it's a > connection? Every howto I've looked at says "And your console should be > connected at this point." (or words to that effect.) A couple > reference the use of agetty. > > However, if I do: > agetty tty0 > or > agetty tty1 > > The connection times out. Hmmm, shouldn't it be ttyS0 or ttyS1? > I don't know what to expect here because I've never used ipmi before. > What should I be doing to get access to the SOL console? Being as it's > serial I was expecting to use minicom or kermit or something like that. > Should I be setting something up before making the SOL connection? I'm > using Ubuntu 12.10. You're pretty close. Probably just a mis-setup somewhere along the way. I list the common mistakes here in the FreeIPMI FAQ. Have you verified that everything is set right? http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html#What-setup-is-needed-for-Serial-over-LAN-_0028SOL_0029-or-Ipmiconsole_003f Al > > Cheers, > Tudor. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
