Configuring The Terminal Settings; Managing The Host System Remotely; Configuring Special Key Functions - Dell PowerEdge 6850 User Manual

3. From the Connect to dropdown menu, select an available COM port, and then click OK.
After you select an available COM port, the COM port properties window appears.
4. Configure the port with the following settings:
Set Bits per second.
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Console redirection supports only 9600, 19.2 K, 57.6 K, or 115.2 K bps.
Set Data bits to 8.
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Set Parity to None.
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Set Stop bits to 1.
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Set Flow control to Hardware.
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Click OK.
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Configuring the Terminal Settings

1. In HyperTerminal, click File, click Properties, and then click the Settings tab.
2. Ensure that the Function, arrow, and Ctrl keys act as field is set to Terminal Keys.
3. Ensure that the Backspace key sends field is set to Ctrl+H.
4. Change the Emulation setting from Auto detect to ANSI or VT 100/220.
Ensure that this setting is the same as the setting you selected for the Console Redirection option on the host system.
5. Click Terminal Setup.
A setting for the number of rows and columns appears.
6. Change the number of rows from 24 to 25 and leave the number of columns at 80.
If you do not have these settings, you must upgrade your terminal emulation software.
7. Click OK twice.
Managing the Host System Remotely
After you configure the host and client systems (see
restart a host system or to change a host system's configuration settings.
1. Reboot the host system using the client system.
See "Configuring Special Key
2. When the host system begins to boot, use console redirection to:
Enter the System Setup program
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Enter the SCSI setup menus
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Update firmware and BIOS (flash the system)
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Run utilities on the utility partition
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NOTE: To run utilities on the host system's utility partition, you must have created the utility partition using Dell OpenManage™ Server Assistant
version 6.3.1 or later.
Configuring Special Key Functions
Console redirection uses ANSI or VT 100/220 terminal emulation, which is limited to basic ASCII characters. Function keys, arrow keys, and control keys are not
available in the ASCII character set, and most utilities require function keys and control keys for ordinary operations. However, you can emulate a function key
or control key using a special key sequence, called an escape sequence.
An escape sequence starts with an escape character. You can enter this character in different ways, depending on the requirements of your terminal
"Configuring the Host
Functions" for instructions.
System" and "Configuring the Client System"), you can use console redirection to