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Serial over lan, 1 overview, 2 installing the ipmitool – Artesyn ATCA-8330 Installation and Use (April 2015) User Manual

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Chapter 8

ATCA-8330 Installation and Use (6806800S82B)

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Serial Over LAN

8.1

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 Ethernet Controller I350 (in pass-through mode)
is used to transmit/receive its terminal characters via the base interface.

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

8.2

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 of impitool is 1.8.11). Documentation for
this tool is also freely available on this site.

Figure 8-1

SOL Overview