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[jwsunc]

I have a dell R710 with the idrac express with vesrions 1.2 firmware. I can login to the idrac via the web interface. I configured the idrac express according to:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/idrac/idrac12mono/en/ug/pdf/ug.pdf

Page 86 "Configuring iDRAC6 for Viewing Serial Output Remotely Over SSH/Telnet"

I can ssh in to the idrac, I then execute the command according to the manual:

/admin1-> console com2

I get the message:

Connected to Serial Device 2. To end type: ^\

At this point my login is hung, no output and executing the "^\"  does nothing, I have to kill my ssh session.

This is a Red Hat 5.4 Linux machine. I do not care at this point about redirecting the console before boot up so I did not implement Page 90 "Configuring Linux for Serial Console Redirection During Boot"

Cannot find any explanation of the BIOS "redirection after boot enable/disable" setting mentioned on Page 86. I tried both enable and disable, no joy. Can not find good doc on overview and settings on console redirection for the various drac versions, that would be nice.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[jwsunc]

After further investigation:

I did get console output if I rebooted the system, I could acess the bios setup etc. When the linux kernel is loaded you must perform the steps "Configuring Linux for Serial Console Redirection During Boot". I believe the "redirection after boot enable/disable" setting would be used to disable the use of the tty port so an external device could be connect to it. Would be nice to get a detailed explanation of all these settings.

[gjs-68]

For anyone ending up on this page as well:

You may need to adjust your console port setting. ttyS1 or ttyS0 depending...
Also do not forget the grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg after modifying /etc/default/grub

See: https://serverfault.com/a/713491/339408
(in https://serverfault.com/questions/545393/serial-over-lan-doesnt-redirect-os-terminal)

see also <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell> (older linux)

[decafranky]

I have same problem.

First times a get also the message : "Connected to Serial Device 2. To end type: ^\";
It also hangs or get the error message serial device 2 is already in use.

Can you please post your settings from serial, and serial over lan config (from webbased) ?