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Chapter 7
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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. Only SOL is available on the base
interface. The sideband interface of the Intel Forthville is used to transmit/receive its terminal
characters via base interface.
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 1.8.13). Documentation for this tool is
also freely available on this site.
Figure 7-1
SOL Overview