SOL White Paper

• Monitor the managed system BIOS boot up screen via Serial Over Lan (SOL):
Press “F2” go to BIOS menu and select “Discard Changes and Exit” as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: BIOS menu screen under SOL
7. Configuring Windows Server 2003* to support SOL
When you connect to the BMC using the DPCCLI, you can remotely control the text console. With
SOL this also includes operating systems such as Windows Server 2003* and Linux*.
Windows Server 2003* has two components that work with DPCCLI and the BMC to provide out-
of-band access to the operating system:
• Microsoft* Emergency Messaging Service (EMS)
• Microsoft* Special Administration Console (SAC)
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