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● Serial Communication — On With Console Redirection

● Serial Port Address — COM2.

NOTE: You can set the serial communication field to On with serial redirection via com1 if serial device2 in

the serial port address field is also set to com1.

● External serial connector — Serial device 2

● Failsafe Baud Rate — 115200

● Remote Terminal Type — VT100/VT220

● Redirection After Boot — Enabled

5. Click Back and then click Finish.

6. Click Yes to save the changes.

7. Press <Esc> to exit System Setup.

NOTE: BIOS sends the screen serial data in 25 x 80 format. The SSH window that is used to invoke the console

com2 command must be set to 25 x 80. Then, the redirected screen appears correctly.

NOTE: If the boot loader or operating system provides serial redirection such as GRUB or Linux, then the BIOS

Redirection After Boot setting must be disabled. This is to avoid potential race condition of multiple components

accessing the serial port.

Configuring iDRAC to use SOL

You can specify the SOL settings in iDRAC using Web interface, RACADM, or iDRAC Settings utility.

Configuring iDRAC to use SOL using iDRAC web interface

To configure IPMI Serial over LAN (SOL):

1. In the iDRAC Web interface, go to iDRAC Settings > Connectivity > Serial Over LAN.

The Serial over LAN page is displayed.

2. Enable SOL, specify the values, and click Apply.

The IPMI SOL settings are configured.

3. To set the character accumulate interval and the character send threshold, select Advanced Settings.

The Serial Over LAN Advanced Settings page is displayed.

4. Specify the values for the attributes and click Apply.

The IPMI SOL advanced settings are configured. These values help to improve the performance.

For information about the options, see the iDRAC Online Help.

Configuring iDRAC to use SOL using RACADM

To configure IPMI Serial over LAN (SOL):

1. Enable IPMI Serial over LAN using the command.

racadm set iDRAC.IPMISol.Enable 1

2. Update the IPMI SOL minimum privilege level using the command.

racadm set iDRAC.IPMISol.MinPrivilege <level>

Parameter

Privilege level

<level> = 2 User

<level> = 3 Operator

<level> = 4 Administrator

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