Dell PowerVault 770N (Deskside NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 33)

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. Ensure that the Function, arrow, and Ctrl keys act as field is set to Terminal Keys.
3. Ensure that the Backspace key sends field is set to Ctrl+H.
4. Change the Emulation setting from Auto detect to ANSI or VT 100/220.
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,
then 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 configuration 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 BIOS configurations, perform the following
steps:
1. Reboot the system. See Table C-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:
Enter the System Setup program.
Enter the SCSI setup menus.
Update firmware and BIOS (flash the system).
Configuring Special Keys
Console redirection uses ANSI or VT 100/220 terminal emulation, which are limited to basic ASCII characters. Function keys,
arrow keys, and control keys are not available 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 C-2 and Table C-3 list the
VT 100/220 escape sequences that must be sent to represent a special key or command.
NOTE: When defining macros in HyperTerminal, you must press before to signify that you are sending
an escape sequence rather than escaping out of the dialog box. If you do not have these settings, this is an indication
that you must upgrade your terminal emulation software.
Table C-2. VT 100/220 Supported Escape Sequences