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View and interact with the boot sequence of your server.
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Perform maintenance activities in text mode.
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Manage non-graphical mode operating systems.
The console window remains open until you sign out of the iLO 2 MP interface using the provided
link in the banner, leave the iLO 2 MP site, or refresh the entire page.
The remote serial console provides the console, and the GUI provides the iLO 2 MP Main Menu
functionality.
Output from the console is stored in nonvolatile memory in the console log, regardless of whether
or not any users are connected to a console. The Remote Serial Console page refreshes every 10
seconds.
The remote serial console option relies on the virtual serial port.
Virtual Serial Port
The iLO 2 MP contains a virtual serial port that enables it to actually be the console hardware
device for the OS. This port is a serial interface between the host system and the iLO 2 MP. The
iLO 2 MP converts the serial data stream to be available remotely through the remote serial
console (a VT320 Java applet). The virtual serial port must be correctly enabled and configured
in the host.
The virtual serial port function is a bidirectional data flow of the data stream appearing on the
server's serial port. Using the remote console paradigm, a remote user can operate as if a physical
serial connection is present on the server's serial port.
With the virtual serial port feature of iLO, an administrator can access a console application such
as Windows EMS remotely over the network. The iLO 2 MP contains the functional equivalent
of the standard serial port (16550 UART) register set, and the iLO firmware provides a Java applet
that connects to the server serial port. If the serial redirection feature is enabled on the host server,
iLO intercepts the data coming from the serial port, encrypts it, and sends it to the web browser
applet.
For Linux users, the iLO virtual serial port feature provides an important function for remote
access to the Linux server. By configuring a Linux login process attached to the server's serial
port, you can use the iLO virtual serial port feature to remotely login to the Linux operating
system over the network.
For more information on using the virtual serial port, see Integrated Lights-Out Virtual Serial Port
configuration and operation HOW TO on the HP website at:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00263709/c00263709.pdf
Virtual Media
Virtual Media (vMedia) provides you with virtual devices that mimic physical hardware devices
such as a virtual floppy disk drive and a CD/DVD drive that connects through the network to
the managed server just as if it was physically connected. The vMedia device can be a physical
CD/DVD drive on the management workstation, or it can be an image file stored on a local disk
drive or network drive.
Booting from the iLO 2 MP CD/DVD enables administrators to upgrade the host system ROM,
upgrade device drivers, deploy an OS from network drives, and perform disaster recovery of
failed operating systems, among other tasks.
The iLO 2 MP device uses a client-server model to perform the vMedia functions. The iLO 2 MP
device streams the vMedia data across a live network connection between the remote management
console and the host server. The vMedia Java applet provides data to the iLO 2 MP as it requests
it.
The Virtual Media page refreshes every 10 seconds. Only one user can connect a virtual device
at a time.
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