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Serial over lan, 1 overview, 2 installing the ipmitool – Artesyn ATCA-7365-CE Installation and Use (May 2014) User Manual

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Chapter 7

ATCA-7365-CE Installation and Use (6806800L73J)

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Serial Over LAN

7.1

Overview

Serial Over LAN (SOL) is a mechanism that you can use to redirect the serial console from the
blade via an IPMI session over the network. SOL uses the RMCP+ protocol.

The IPMC is used to establish and control the SOL session. SOL is only available on the base
interface. The sideband interface of the Intel 82576 (in pass-through mode) is used to
transmit/receive its terminal characters via the base interface.

Only a payload baudrate of 9600 baud is supported.

You can configure the SOL parameters via standard IPMI commands or via an open source tool
called "ipmitool".

7.2

Installing the ipmitool

You can download the open source tool ipmitool from

http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net

(at the

time of publishing this manual the current version is 1.8.10). Documentation for this tool is
also freely available on this site.

Figure 7-1

SOL Overview