Dell PowerEdge 6650 - Manual (Page 14)

Configuring the Ports
1. Click the Start button, point to Programs—> Accessories—> Communications, and click HyperTerminal.
2. Enter any name for the new connection and select any icon.
3. Click OK.
4. From the Connect to pull-down menu, select a COM port available on your client system and click OK.
If no COM port is available and you do not have a system, you will need to contact technical support for your client system.
After you have selected an available COM port, the COM port properties window is displayed.
5. Select Bits per second.
Console redirection supports 9600, 19.2 K, 57.6 K, or 115.2 K bps.
6. Set Data bits to 8.
7. Set Parity to None.
8. Set Stop bits to 1.
9. Set Flow control to Hardware.
10. Click OK.
Configuring the Terminal Settings
After you configure the ports, configure the terminal settings by performing the following steps:
1. In HyperTerminal, click File, click Properties, and select the Settings tab.
2. Make sure that the Function, arrow, and ctrl keys act as field is set to Terminal Keys.
3. Make sure that the Backspace key sends field is set to Ctrl+H.
4. Change the Emulation setting from Auto detect to ANSI or VT100/220.
This setting should be the same as the setting you selected for the Console Redirection option on the server.
When you click Terminal Setup, you should see a setting for the number of rows and columns.
5. Change the number of rows from 24 to 25 and leave the number of columns at 80. If you do not have these settings, this is an indication that you must
upgrade your terminal emulation software.
Rebooting the System
Console redirection is designed to yield control of the serial ports to the operating system. This design allows serial debugging and redirection of the operating
system to function correctly without interference from the system BIOS.
To use console redirection to shut down a system and troubleshoot it or to change SCSI BIOS configurations, perform the following steps:
1. Reboot the system. See Table D -4 for a recommendation on how to do this.
2. When the system begins to reboot, use console redirection to watch and interact with the system during the POST. While the system is booting, you
can do the following:
l Enter the System Setup program.
l Enter the SCSI setup menus.
l Run utilities on the utility partition.
l Update firmware and BIOS (flash the system).
Configuring Special Keys
Console redirection uses ANSI or VT100/220 terminal emulation, which are limited to basic ASCII characters. No function keys, arrow keys, or control keys are
in this character set. However, most BIOS software requires the use of function keys and control keys for ordinary functions. You can emulate a function key or
control key by using a special key sequence, called an escape sequence, to represent a specific key.
For console redirection, an escape sequence starts with an escape character. This character can be entered in a number of different ways, depending on the
requirements of your terminal emulation software. For example, 0x1b, ^[, and all refer to the same escape character. Some terminal software uses
predefined macros to send the proper escape sequences. In HyperTerminal, you can define macros by selecting Key Macros from the View menu. Macros can
be assigned to almost any possible key for almost any key combination. Create a macro for each of your function keys.
Table D -2 and Table D -3 list the
VT100/220 escape sequences that must be sent to represent a special key or command. Additional escape sequences are listed in Table D -4 .
NOTE: The examples in this document assume that you have upgraded to Hilgraeve's HyperTerminal Private Edition 6.1 or later. If you are using other
terminal emulation software, see the help file for that software.
NOTE: To use console redirection to run utilities on the utility partition, the utility partition must have been created using Dell OpenManage™
Server Assistant.