Enabling And Configuring The Managed System To Use A Serial Or Telnet Console; Configuring The System Setup Program On The Managed System - Dell Remote Access Controller 4 Firmware Version 1.30 User Manual

• Menu-based VT-100 block screen interface that provides easy operation of commonly used
commands including reset, power-on, and power-off
NOTE:
console, several options (such as reading or writing a file) are not supported by the racadm
command through a serial or telnet console. For more information about supported racadm
commands for the serial and telnet consoles, see "Using the serial and racadm Commands."
• Optional idle time-out setting on SSH connections for enhanced security, controlled by the
"cfgSsnMgtSshIdleTimeout (Read/Write)" object
Enabling and Configuring the Managed System to Use a
Serial or Telnet Console
The following subsections provide information about how to enable and configure a serial/telnet
console on the managed system.
NOTE:
The connect com2 serial command requires that the Serial Port setting under the BIOS setup
group Integrated Devices be set to RAC. When a telnet session is established to the DRAC 4 and the
setting of this serial port is not RAC, connect com2 yields a blank screen.
NOTE:
The connect com2 serial command is not supported on systems running the Novell
operating system.

Configuring the System Setup Program on the Managed System

Perform the following steps to configure your System Setup program to redirect output to a
serial port.
NOTE:
You must configure the System Setup program in conjunction with the connect serial/telnet
command.
1 Turn on or restart your system.
2 Press <F2> immediately after you see the following message:
<F2> = System Setup
3 Scroll down and select Integrated Devices by pressing <Enter>.
4 In the submenu, scroll down to Serial Port 1 and set to RAC.
5 Scroll down and select Console Redirection.
6 Set the Console Redirection screen to the following settings:
Console Redirection – Serial Port 1
Redirection After Boot – Disabled
7 Press <Esc> to exit the System Setup program to complete the System Setup
program configuration.
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Configuring the DRAC 4 to Use a Serial or Telnet Text Console
Because the racadm command does not have access to a file system on a serial or telnet
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