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7 Serial Over LAN
Serial Over LAN (SOL) is a remote management mechanism in which the IPMI controller redirects the
serial console from the blade via an IPM Interface session over the network with RMCP+ protocol.
The aTCA-6200 supports SOL on the Base Interface which is powered by the Intel® 82576 Gigabit
Ethernet Controller. The SOL feature supports transmit/receive of serial console messages from a
remote site with full console management ability. The aTCA-6200 supports 2 channels (channel 1/2)
and 2 user IDs for SOL. You can refer to the following section for more detailed configuration.
Note: SOL does not support login of 2 users at the same time.
7.1 Preparation for SOL Connection
Prepare a remote client with Linux OS and connect it to the network.
7.2 Configuring the Remote Client
7.2.1 Installing the Ipmitool for Remote Client
You can download the latest ipmitool and document from the following website
http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net
Click on either the *bz or *gz version of ipmitool to download the bzipped or gzipped ipmitool source
code tarball respectively.
To build the ipmitool, unzip and untar the downloaded ipmitool package, configure the ipmitool for
your system, and then navigate to the created ipmitool directory.
Example using the gzipped tarball:
tar xvzf ipmitool*.tar.gzcd ipmitool*
Run the following to configure ipmitool for your system:
./configure
Build the source code and install ipmitool:
make
make install
Now your remote client is ready to connect to the target aTCA-6200 blade.
Note: The install must be run with root permissions to overlay the existing ipmitool utility in
/usr/local/bin.