[OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone else using IPMIView20 on OpenIndiana?

[David Brodbeck]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:01:43AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > Try something like this to open a virtual console:
> > ipmitool -I lanplus -H <hostname> -U<username> sol activate
>
> Thanks.  That works nicely.  The terminal emulation is a bit messed up
> when running under gnome-terminal, but otherwise it's fine.
>

One thing that may help is enlarging your window to be 80x25 characters
instead of 80x24.  Remember that it's redirecting a PC text screen, and
that's 80x25.  Another thing that has sometimes worked for me is trying
different terminal emulation options, e.g. VT102 vs. ANSI.

> I haven't tried to configure OI for a serial console yet, so I can't

> > help you with that, but this should help get you started.
>
> When GRUB starts the OS, I get the one-line banner on both consoles
> but nothing after that on the remote console.  The logging and the OS
> login session appear only on the local console.  It appears that the
> BMI device stops redirecting when the OS begins using the VGA
> interface.  I haven't figured out how to get around that yet.
>

Yeah, once the OS loads the BMI probably loses control of the redirection.
 You'll need to figure out how to tell OI's kernel to use the serial port
as a console, and I don't know how to do that.

-- 
David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington