Console Conguration
1. Boot the console into the operating system.
2. Launch HyperTerminal by clicking on the Start button in the task bar.
3. Select Programs>Accessories>Communications and click HyperTerminal.
4. At the Connection Description window, enter guest for the name and click OK.
5. At the Connect To window, select the COM port of the console where the null modem is
connected. In this example, it is COM1.
6. At the COM1 Properties window, select 19200 for the Bits per second (Baud rate) to match the
SMU conguration on the server.
7. Select Hardware for the Flow Control to match the conguration settings for the BIOS Setup
(CTS/RTS is the Hardware ow control).
8. Leave the default settings for the other boxes. Click OK to accept the settings and enter the
HyperTerminal screen.
9. Power on the server. The console starts displaying the redirection once the video synchronizes
on the server.
Terminal Mode
The Terminal Mode feature allows you to directly interface to the server’s Baseboard Management
Controller via a serial port connection and execute text-based commands. Two types of text commands
are supported:
• A limited selection of text commands
• Standard binary IPMI 1.5 hex-ASCII commands
Using the terminal mode feature you can do the following:
• Power the server on or off
• Reset the server
• Retrieve the server’s health status
• Congure and retrieve the server management subsystems boot options
• Congure and retrieve the BMC’s terminal mode conguration
• Execute any platform supported binary command specied in the IPMI v1.5 specication using
the hex-ASCII format
See Terminal Mode Conguration for details about the terminal mode conguration screen.
Setup and Conguration
Connection Mechanism
Two types of connection mechanisms are supported as follows:
• Direct connection, where a local host is connected to the target system directly
• Modem connection, where the local host is connected to the target system via a modem
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