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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: cozmos9 on February 27, 2006, 08:17:46 PM
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Could someone point me in the right direction on how to use/configure the serial port in SME7? My Dell bios allows me to redirect to ser1. This way, I can view the server's boot process from a workstation. Once the OS takes over, however, the redirect stops. I assume I have to run a new serial port session, but various attempts have so far failed.
Why do I want to do a serial connection? I was upgrading from 6.x to 7pre3 this weekend. After the data restoration, eth0 configuration disappeared and therefore lost connectivity to the box (Dell poweredge sc1425 w/ gb eth). It occurred to me that if I had a serial connection to the box, I would have poked around and tried to fix the interface problem. That's my reason.
Thanks for any help,
Jean
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Holy cow! This is not for the feint of heart. A search on RedHat yielded an extensive and fairly involved how-to on this. If anyone knows a shortcut, it would sure be helpful. Also, this might be a nice feature to have pre-configured in the distro.
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cozmos9,
Have you tried this (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps1q03_stanton ) ?
(Enabling Serial Port Console Redirection on Linux-based Dell Servers)
Personally I prefer a 15$ KVM switch ...but the above works!
Please let me know why you find a serial console of use and what you use it for ?!
Regards
Reinhold
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Hey, thanks a bunch for the link. I'll check that out. I have a bunch of KVMs also, but they're no good for remote admin. I know there are IP based KVMs, but those are upwards of $800.
I don't need this functionality per se. When I was migrating from 6.01 to 7 over the weekend, I lost IP config/connectivity. So, I had to wait till I had physical access to figure out what to do. If I had serial access, I could have vnc'ed into my workstation, then access sme from there. So...
Jean