Minimum hardware and connection requirements, Setting up console redirection, Navigating with console redirection – Dell PowerVault 715N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) User Manual
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Console redirection allows you to maintain a NAS appliance from a client system by re-directing keyboard input and text
output through the serial port. Graphic output is not redirected. This section describes the simplest connection possible:
connecting to a system with a null modem cable.
Minimum Hardware and Connection Requirements
To use console redirection, you must have the following ports:
An available serial port (COM port) on a client system. (This port must not conflict with any other ports on the
system.)
Available serial port 1 (COM 1) on the NAS appliance.
NOTE:
Console Redirection is enabled by default in the NAS appliance BIOS.
A null-modem cable to connect the server to the client system.
Setting Up Console Redirection
To set up console redirection to manage your NAS appliance, perform the following steps:
1. Using a null-modem serial cable, connect the client system to the NAS appliance.
2. Turn on the client system and set up a Hyperterminal connection.
a. Click the Start button and point to Programs—>Accessories—>Hyperterminal
—>Hyperterminal.
b. Select 115200 for the Bits per second, 8 for Data Bits, None for Parity, 1 for Stop Bits, and Xon\Xoff
for Flow control.
3. Restart the NAS appliance.
You can now use your client system to manage your NAS appliance. If you need to configure your BIOS settings, see
"Entering the BIOS Setup Utility" in your User's Guide.
Navigating With Console Redirection
Because of ANSI limitations, not all keys can be used with console redirection.
used for the version of Windows on your client system.
Table 6-2. Console Redirection Keys
Normal Keys (As They Appear
on the Keyboard)
Keys Used for Windows 2000 Prior
to Service Pack 2
Keys Used for All Other Windows
Operating Systems
Home
End
Insert
Delete
Page Up
< Esc>
Page Down
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5