> From: "Nicholas Lee" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:04:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] troubleshooting smartos/supermicro

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Keith Wesolowski <
> [email protected] > wrote:

> > If IPMI is working, then you should be using the serial console
> > instead
> 
> > of VGA+keyboard. If you are, then you can access the console
> > remotely
> 
> > using the sol activate ipmitool command. That should get you to a
> > place
> 
> > where you can debug the problem.
> 

> > I can't emphasise this enough, so for the benefit of anyone reading
> > this
> 
> > now or in archives: ALWAYS USE THE SERIAL-OVER-LAN CONSOLE!
> 

> Is there a reason why the SOL console is prefer on the standard
> console?

> I'm not had problems with supermicro's web based KVM in the past with
> other hypervisors. I haven't tried their SOL web console, so I'm not
> sure work well that would work.

some functionality is missing on with web console when connecting from my mac 
and openbsd laptops. i much prefer the shell anyway, so this seems like a 
decent idea for me. not sure about everybody else.


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