HP iLO 3 User Guide

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Using Shared Remote Console (.NET IRC only)....................................................................119

Using Console Capture (.NET IRC only)..............................................................................120

Viewing Server Startup and Server Prefailure sequences...................................................121

Saving Server Startup and Server Prefailure video files.....................................................121

Capturing video files...................................................................................................122

Viewing saved video files.............................................................................................122

Using Remote Console hot keys..........................................................................................122

Creating a hot key......................................................................................................122

Resetting hot keys........................................................................................................124

Using the text-based Remote Console......................................................................................124

Using the iLO Virtual Serial Port.........................................................................................124

Configuring the iLO Virtual Serial Port in the host system RBSU..........................................125

Configuring the iLO Virtual Serial Port for Linux...............................................................128

Configuring the iLO Virtual Serial Port for the Windows EMS Console................................129

Using the Text-based Remote Console (Textcons)..................................................................129

Customizing the Text-based Remote Console...................................................................130

Using the Text-based Remote Console............................................................................131

Using Linux with the Text-based Remote Console..............................................................131

Using iLO Virtual Media........................................................................................................131

Virtual Media operating system information.........................................................................133

Operating system USB requirement................................................................................133

Using Virtual Media with Windows 7............................................................................133

Operating system considerations: Virtual Floppy/USB key................................................133

Changing diskettes.................................................................................................133

Operating system considerations: Virtual CD/DVD-ROM..................................................134

Mounting a USB Virtual Media CD/DVD-ROM on Linux systems...................................134

Operating system considerations: Virtual Folder .............................................................134

Using iLO Virtual Media from the iLO web interface.............................................................135

Viewing and modifying the Virtual Media port................................................................135

Viewing and ejecting local media.................................................................................136

Connecting scripted media...........................................................................................136

Viewing and ejecting scripted media.............................................................................136

Using iLO Virtual Media from the Remote Console................................................................137

Using a Virtual Drive...................................................................................................137

Using a physical drive on a client PC........................................................................137

Using an image file................................................................................................137

Using an image file through a URL (IIS/Apache).........................................................137

Using the Create Media Image feature (Java IRC only).....................................................137

Creating an iLO disk image file................................................................................138

Copying data from an image file to a physical disk....................................................138

Using a Virtual Folder (.NET IRC only)............................................................................139

Setting up IIS for scripted Virtual Media..............................................................................139

Configuring IIS............................................................................................................139

Configuring IIS for read/write access.............................................................................140

Inserting Virtual Media with a helper application............................................................141

Sample Virtual Media helper application.......................................................................141

Configuring Virtual Media Boot Order................................................................................142

Changing the server boot order....................................................................................142

Changing the one-time boot status................................................................................143

Using the additional options.........................................................................................143

About server power..............................................................................................................143

Brownout recovery...........................................................................................................143

Graceful shutdown...........................................................................................................144

Power efficiency...............................................................................................................144

Using iLO Power Management...............................................................................................144

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