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							1.NavigatetotheRemoteConsole→HotKeyspage.
2.Foreachhotkeythatyouwanttocreate,selectthekeycombinationtosendtotheremote
server.
Toconfigurehotkeystogeneratekeysequencesfrominternationalkeyboards,selectthekey
onaU.S.keyboardthatisinthesamepositionasthedesiredkeyontheinternational
keyboard.Table6(page211)liststhekeysyoucanusewhenyouconfigurehotkeys.
Table6Keysforconfiguringhotkeys
g1SCRLLCKESC
h2SYSRQL_ALT
I3F1R_ALT
j4F2L_SHIFT
k5F3R_SHIFT
l6F4L_CTRL
m7F5R_CTRL
n8F6L_GUI
o9F7R_GUI
p;F8INS
q=F9DEL
r[F10HOME
s\F11END
t]F12PGUP
u`SPACEPGDN
va'ENTER
wb,TAB
xc-BREAK
yd.BACKSPACE
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							Table6Keysforconfiguringhotkeys(continued)
ze/NUMPLUS
f0NUMMINUS
3.ClickSaveHotKeys.
Thefollowingmessageappears:
Remote Console Hot Keys settings successful.
Resettinghotkeys
Resettingthehotkeysclearsallcurrenthotkeyassignments.
1.NavigatetotheRemoteConsole→HotKeyspage.
2.ClickResetHotKeys.
3.Thefollowingmessageappears:
Are you sure you want to reset all hot keys?
4.ClickOK.
Thefollowingmessageappears:
Remote Console Hot Keys reset successful.
Usingthetext-basedRemoteConsole
iLOsupportsatruetext-basedRemoteConsole.Videoinformationisobtainedfromtheserver,and
thecontentsofthevideomemoryaresenttotheiLOmanagementprocessor,compressed,encrypted,
andforwardedtothemanagementclientapplication.iLOusesascreen-framebufferthatsends
thecharacters(includingscreenpositioninginformation)totext-basedclientapplications.This
methodensurescompatibilitywithstandardtext-basedclients,goodperformance,andsimplicity.
However,youcannotdisplaynon-ASCIIorgraphicalinformation,andscreenpositioninginformation
(displayedcharacters)mightbesentoutoforder.
iLOusesthevideoadapterDVOporttoaccessvideomemorydirectly.ThismethodincreasesiLO
performancesignificantly.However,thedigitalvideostreamdoesnotcontainusefultextdata.
Thisdatacannotberenderedbyatext-basedclientapplicationsuchasSSH.
Therearetwotext-basedconsoleoptions,asdescribedinthefollowingsections:
•“UsingtheiLOVirtualSerialPort”(page212)
•“UsingtheText-basedRemoteConsole(Textcons)”(page222)
UsingtheiLOVirtualSerialPort
Youcanaccessatext-basedconsolefromiLOusingastandardlicenseandtheiLOVirtualSerial
Port.
TheiLOVirtualSerialPortisonetypeofiLOtext-basedremoteconsole.TheiLOVirtualSerialPort
givesyouabidirectionaldataflowwithaserverserialport.Usingtheremoteconsole,youcan
operateasifaphysicalserialconnectionexistsontheremoteserverserialport.
TheiLOVirtualSerialPortisdisplayedasatext-basedconsole,buttheinformationisrendered
throughgraphicalvideodata.iLOdisplaysthisinformationthroughanSSHclientwhentheserver
isinapre-operating-systemstate,enablinganonlicensediLOtoobserveandinteractwiththe
serverduringPOSTactivities.
ByusingtheiLOVirtualSerialPort,theremoteusercanperformoperationssuchasthefollowing:
•InteractwiththeserverPOSTsequenceandtheoperatingsystembootsequence.
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							IMPORTANT:TostartiLORBSUduringaVirtualSerialPortsession,enterthekeycombination
ESC+8.
TostarttheUEFISystemUtilitiesduringaVirtualSerialPortsession,enterthekeycombination
ESC+9.
•Establishaloginsessionwiththeoperatingsystem,interactwiththeoperatingsystem;and
executeandinteractwithapplicationsontheoperatingsystem.
•ForaniLOrunningLinuxinagraphicalformat,youcanconfiguregetty()ontheserver
serialport,andthenusetheiLOVirtualSerialPorttoviewaloginsessiontotheLinuxoperating
system.Formoreinformation,see“ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortforLinux”(page219).
•UsetheEMSConsolethroughtheiLOVirtualSerialPort.EMSisusefulfordebuggingWindows
bootissuesandkernel-levelissues.Formoreinformation,see“ConfiguringtheiLOVirtual
SerialPortfortheWindowsEMSConsole”(page220).
ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortinthehostsystemRBSU
ThefollowingproceduredescribesthesettingsyoumustconfigurebeforeyoucanusetheiLO
VirtualSerialPort.ThisprocedureisrequiredforbothWindowsandLinuxsystems.
ThisprocedureisforsystemsthatsupportthelegacysystemRBSU.Forsystemsthatsupportthe
UEFISystemUtilities,see“ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortintheUEFISystemUtilities”(page
216).
1.Optional:Ifyouaccesstheserverremotely,startaniLOremoteconsolesession.
Youcanusethe.NETIRCorJavaIRC.
2.Restartorpowerontheserver.
3.PressF9intheHPProLiantPOSTscreen.
TheSystemRBSUscreenappears.
4.SelectSystemOptions,andthenpressEnter.
5.SelectSerialPortOptions,andthenpressEnter.
6.SelectVirtualSerialPort,andthenpressEnter.
7.SelecttheCOMportyouwanttouse,andthenpressEnter.
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							8.PressESCtwicetoreturntothemainmenu.
9.SelectBIOSSerialConsole&EMS,andthenpressEnter.
NOTE:EMSisforWindowsonly.
10.SelectBIOSSerialConsolePort,andthenpressEnter.
11.SelecttheCOMportthatmatchesthevalueselectedinstep7,andthenpressEnter.
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							12.SelectBIOSSerialConsoleBaudRate,andthenpressEnter.
13.Select115200,andthenpressEnter.
NOTE:ThecurrentimplementationoftheiLOVirtualSerialPortdoesnotuseaphysical
UART,sotheBIOSSerialConsoleBaudRatevaluewillhavenoeffectontheactualspeedthe
iLOVirtualSerialPortwillusetosendandreceivedatafromthesystem.
14.SelectEMSConsole,andthenpressEnter.
15.SelecttheCOMportthatmatchesthevalueselectedinstep7,andthenpressEnter.
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							16.ExitthesystemRBSU.
ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortintheUEFISystemUtilities
ThefollowingproceduredescribesthesettingsyoumustconfigurebeforeyoucanusetheiLO
VirtualSerialPort.ThisprocedureisrequiredforbothWindowsandLinuxsystems.
ThisprocedureisforsystemsthatsupporttheUEFISystemUtilities.Forsystemsthatsupportthe
legacysystemRBSU,see“ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortinthehostsystemRBSU”(page
213).
1.Optional:Ifyouaccesstheserverremotely,startaniLOremoteconsolesession.
Youcanusethe.NETIRCorJavaIRC.
2.Restartorpowerontheserver.
3.PressF9intheHPProLiantPOSTscreen.
TheSystemConfigurationscreenappears.
4.UsetheupordownarrowkeysandtheEnterkeytonavigatetotheROM-BasedSetupUtility
(RBSU)→SystemOptions→SerialPortOptionsscreen.
5.SelectVirtualSerialPort,andthenpressEnter.
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							6.SelecttheCOMportyouwanttouse,andthenpressEnter.
7.PressESCtwicetoreturntothemainmenu.
8.SelectBIOSSerialConsoleandEMS,andthenpressEnter.
NOTE:EMSisforWindowsonly.
9.SelectBIOSSerialConsolePort,andthenpressEnter.
10.SelecttheCOMportthatmatchesthevalueselectedinstep6,andthenpressEnter.
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							11.PressESCtoreturntothemainmenu.
12.SelectBIOSSerialConsoleBaudRate,andthenpressEnter.
13.Select115200,andthenpressEnter.
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							NOTE:ThecurrentimplementationoftheiLOVirtualSerialPortdoesnotuseaphysical
UART,sotheBIOSSerialConsoleBaudRatevaluewillhavenoeffectontheactualspeed
theiLOVirtualSerialPortwillusetosendandreceivedatafromthesystem.
14.PressESCtoreturntothemainmenu.
15.SelectEMSConsole,andthenpressEnter.
16.SelecttheCOMportthatmatchesthevalueselectedinstep6,andthenpressEnter.
17.PressF10tosavethechanges.
TheiLO4ConfigurationUtilitypromptsyoutoconfirmthatyouwanttosaveallpending
configurationchanges.
18.PressEnter.
TheiLO4ConfigurationUtilitynotifiesyouthatiLOmustberesetinorderforthechangesto
takeeffect.
19.PressEnter.
iLOresets,andtheremoteconsolesessionisautomaticallyended.Youcanreconnectin
approximately30seconds.
20.Resumethenormalbootprocess:
a.StarttheiLOremoteconsole.
TheiLO4ConfigurationUtilityisstillopenfromtheprevioussession.
b.PressESCseveraltimestonavigatetotheSystemConfigurationpage.
c.PressESCtoexittheSystemUtilitiesandresumethenormalbootprocess.
ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortforLinux
YoucanmanageLinuxserversremotelyusingconsoleredirection.ToconfigureLinuxtouseconsole
redirection,youmustconfiguretheLinuxbootloader(GRUB).Theboot-loaderapplicationloads
fromthebootabledevicewhentheserversystemROMfinishesPOST.Definetheserialinterface
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							(ttyS0)asthedefaultinterfacesothatifnoinputarrivesfromthelocalkeyboardwithin10seconds
(thedefaulttimeoutvalue),thesystemwillredirectoutputtotheserialinterface(iLOVirtualSerial
Port).
NOTE:ttyS0andunit0areforcom1andttyS1andunit1areforcom2.
ThefollowingconfigurationexampleusesRedHatLinuxandcom1:
serial -unit=0 -speed=115200terminal -timeout=10 serial consoledefault=0timeout=10#splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gztitle Red Hat Linux (2. 6.18-164.e15)root (hd0,2)9kernel /vmlinux-2.6.18-164.e15 ro root=/dev/sda9 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.e15.img
Ifcom2wasselected,theconfigurationexamplewouldbeasfollows:
serial -unit=1 -speed=115200terminal -timeout=10 serial consoledefault=0timeout=10#splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gztitle Red Hat Linux (2. 6.18-164.e15)root (hd0,2)9kernel /vmlinux-2.6.18-164.e15 ro root=/dev/sda9 console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.e15.img
AfterLinuxisfullybooted,aloginconsolecanberedirectedtotheserialport.
•Ifconfigured,the/dev/ttyS0and/dev/ttyS1devicesenableyoutoobtainserialTTY
sessionsthroughtheiLOVirtualSerialPort.Tobeginashellsessiononaconfiguredserial
port,addthefollowinglinetothe/etc/inittabfiletostarttheloginprocessautomatically
duringsystemboot.
Thefollowingexampleinitiatestheloginconsoleon/dev/ttyS0:
S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS0 vt100
Thefollowingexampleinitiatestheloginconsoleondev/ttys1:
S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS1 vt100
•UseSSHtoconnecttoiLO,andthenusetheiLOCLPcommandstart
/system1/oemhp_vsp1toviewaloginsessiontotheLinuxoperatingsystem.
ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortfortheWindowsEMSConsole
iLOenablesyoutousetheWindowsEMSConsoleoverthenetworkthroughawebbrowser.EMS
enablesyoutoperformemergencymanagementserviceswhenvideo,devicedrivers,orother
operatingsystemfeaturespreventnormaloperationandnormalcorrectiveactionsfrombeing
performed.
WhenusingtheWindowsEMSConsolewithiLO,notethefollowing:
•YoumustconfiguretheWindowsEMSconsolewithintheoperatingsystembeforeyoucan
usetheiLOVirtualSerialPort.ForinformationabouthowtoenabletheEMSconsole,see
youroperatingsystemdocumentation.IftheEMSconsoleisnotenabledintheoperating
system,iLOdisplaysanerrormessagewhenyoutrytoaccesstheiLOVirtualSerialPort.
•TheWindowsEMSserialportmustbeenabledthroughthehostsystemRBSUortheUEFI
SystemUtilities.TheconfigurationallowsyoutoenableordisabletheEMSport,andselect
theCOMport.iLOautomaticallydetectswhethertheEMSportisenabledordisabled,and
detectstheselectionoftheCOMport.FormoreinformationaboutenablingtheWindows
EMSserialport,see“ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortinthehostsystemRBSU”(page213)
or“ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortintheUEFISystemUtilities”(page216).
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