> 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. ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
