HP Integrity iLO 3 Operations Guide

NOTE: If Launch is disabled, you do not have the Remote Console Access user right. To add the
user right, see User Administration.
Figure 17 Remote Serial Console window
Using this feature, you can do the following:
• View and interact with the boot sequence of your server.
• Perform maintenance activities in text mode.
• Manage nongraphical mode operating systems.
The console window remains open until you sign out of the iLO 3 interface using the provided link
in the banner, leave the iLO 3 site, or refresh the entire page.
The remote serial console provides the console, and the GUI provides the iLO 3 MP Main Menu
functionality.
Output from the console is stored in nonvolatile memory in the console log, regardless of whether
or not any users are connected to a console.
TIP: In Internet Explorer, the Tab key might cause the browser to change focus away from the
applet. To regain focus, click the applet window. If you want to use the Tab key, use the Zoom
Out feature, available by clicking the Zoom In/Out button at the top of the applet window.
HP-UX example: Applications which care about the terminal type (install, SAM, vi, and so on)
running on HP-UX use two methods to determine the terminal type: The $TERM shell environment
variable. The application directly queries the terminal (in this case, the write enabled terminal
establishes the terminal type).
Remote Serial Console
Integrity iLO 3 contains a remote serial console that enables it to actually be the console hardware
device for the operating system. This console is a serial interface between the host system and iLO
3. Integrity iLO 3 converts the serial data stream to be available remotely through the remote serial
console (a VT320 Java applet). The remote serial console must be correctly enabled and configured
in the host.
80 Using iLO 3