Sol Proxy - Dell External OEMR 1435 User Manual

Figure 3-14. IPMISH help option

SOL Proxy

SOL Proxy is a simple telnet server. It allows a telnet client to interact with
the hardware-designated serial port of a remote managed system using the
LAN communication channel. See Figure 3-15. With SOL Proxy,
administrators can view and change the BIOS settings over a shared LAN. In
addition, you can also access your managed system's BMC using SOL Proxy
using the Linux serial console and Microsoft's EMS/SAC interfaces. SOL
Proxy does not support in-band or serial connection to the managed system's
BMC.
When BIOS console redirection to serial port is enabled on the remote
managed system, any application that uses the BIOS to read from or write to
the system console will have its I/O redirected to the designated serial I/O
port. When SOL is activated, the BMC firmware reads any data written to
the serial port and transmits it to the SOL Proxy as LAN packets. SOL Proxy
then forwards the data to the telnet client as TCP/IP packets.
Conversely, any keyboard activity at the telnet client is sent to the BMC by
SOL Proxy. BMC then writes the packets to the system serial I/O port.
NOTE:
See your system's User's Guide for more information about console
redirection, including hardware and software requirements and instructions for
configuring host and client systems to use console redirection.
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