Acquiring The Remote Console; Virtual Serial Port - HP Integrated Lights-Out User Manual

Acquiring the Remote Console

When the Enable Remote Console Acquire setting on the Global Settings page is set to Yes, the Remote
Console page displays the Acquire button. If you have opened the Remote Console page and are notified
that another user is currently using Remote Console, clicking the Acquire button ends the other user's
Remote Console session and starts a Remote Console session in your current window.
When you click Acquire, you are prompted to verify that you want to interrupt the other user's Remote
Console session. The other user receives a notification that another user has acquired the Remote Console
session after losing the connection. No prior warning is given. After you confirm you want to proceed
with the acquire operation, you will are notified by an alert window that the operation could take 30
seconds or longer to complete. Do not click the Acquire button again during this time.
Only one acquire command is allowed every five minutes for all users. If another user has recently
acquired the Remote Console, clicking the Acquire button can result in a page informing you that the five
minute acquire disabled period is in effect. Close the window and re-launch Remote Console to try again.
The Acquire button is disabled in the new page until the acquire disable period expires. When the
Acquire button is enabled (this happens automatically; you do not have to refresh the page), you can
attempt to acquire the Remote Console session again.
Only one acquire attempt may be made per Remote Console session window. If you have successfully
acquired the Remote Console, and someone subsequently acquires it from you, you must open a new
Remote Console window to attempt to acquire the Remote Console session again.

Virtual Serial Port

The Virtual Serial Port function is a bidirectional data flow of the data stream appearing on the server
serial port through a Java™ applet which enables a connection to the server serial port. The Java™ applet
provides VT320 terminal emulation to access applications configured for the serial port. You can operate
as if a physical serial connection is present on the server serial port. Three types of data that can appear
on a ProLiant server serial port:
Windows® EMS console
Using iLO 78