Users Guide

The key sequence directs you to the iDRAC Login prompt (if the iDRAC is set to RAC Serial mode) or to the Serial Connection

mode where terminal commands can be issued if iDRAC is set to IPMI Serial Direct Connect Terminal Mode.

Switching from RAC serial to serial console

To switch to Serial Console Mode when in RAC Serial Interface Communication Mode, press Esc+Shift, Q.

When in terminal mode, to switch the connection to the Serial Console mode, press Esc+Shift, Q.

To go back to the terminal mode use, when connected in Serial Console mode, press Esc+Shift, 9.

Communicating with iDRAC using IPMI SOL

IPMI Serial Over LAN (SOL) allows a managed system’s text-based console serial data to be redirected over iDRAC’s dedicated or

shared out-of-band ethernet management network. Using SOL you can:

• Remotely access operating systems with no time-out.

• Diagnose host systems on Emergency Management Services (EMS) or Special Administrator Console (SAC) for Windows or

Linux shell.

• View the progress of a servers during POST and reconfigure the BIOS setup program.

To setup the SOL communication mode:

1. Configure BIOS for serial connection.

2. Configure iDRAC to Use SOL.

3. Enable a supported protocol (SSH, Telnet, IPMItool).