Users Guide

Enabling RAC serial connection

After configuring serial connection in BIOS, enable RAC serial in iDRAC.

NOTE: This is applicable only for iDRAC on rack and tower servers.

Enabling RAC serial connection using web interface

To enable RAC serial connection:

1. In the iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → iDRAC Settings → Network → Serial.

The Serial page is displayed.

2. Under RAC Serial, select Enabled and specify the values for the attributes.

3. Click Apply.

The RAC serial settings are configured.

Enabling RAC serial connection using RACADM

To enable RAC serial connection using RACADM, use the set command with the object in the iDRAC.Serial group.

Enabling IPMI serial connection basic and terminal modes

To enable IPMI serial routing of BIOS to iDRAC, configure IPMI Serial in any of the following modes in iDRAC:

NOTE: This is applicable only for iDRAC on rack and tower servers.

• IPMI basic mode — Supports a binary interface for program access, such as the IPMI shell (ipmish) that is included with the

Baseboard Management Utility (BMU). For example, to print the System Event Log using ipmish via IPMI Basic mode, run the

following command:

ipmish -com 1 -baud 57600 -flow cts -u root -p calvin sel get

• IPMI terminal mode — Supports ASCII commands that are sent from a serial terminal. This mode supports limited number of

commands (including power control) and raw IPMI commands that are typed as hexadecimal ASCII characters. It allows you to

view the operating system boot sequences up to BIOS, when you login to iDRAC through SSH or Telnet.