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•ServerStartupandServerPrefailuresequencesaresavedautomaticallyiniLOmemory.They
willbelostduringfirmwareupgrades,iLOreset,andpowerloss.Youcansavethecaptured
videotoyourlocaldrivebyusingthe.NETIRC.
•TheServerStartupfilestartscapturingwhenserverstartupisdetected,andstopswhenitruns
outofspace.Thisfileisoverwritteneachtimetheserverstarts.
•TheServerPrefailurefilestartscapturingwhentheServerStartupfileisfull,andstopswhen
iLOdetectsanASRevent.TheServerPrefailurefileislockedwheniLOdetectsanASRevent....

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5.PressthePlaybuttonagaintostopplayback.
TheSaveCapturedialogboxopens,asshowninFigure66(page122).
Figure66SaveCapturedialogbox
6.ClickYes,andthenfollowtheonscreeninstructionstosavethefile.
Capturingvideofiles
YoucanuseConsoleCapturetomanuallycapturevideofilesofsequencesotherthanServerStartup
andServerPrefailure.
1.Startthe.NETIRC.
2.ClicktheRecordbutton.
3.TheSaveVideodialogboxopens.
4.Enterafilenameandsavelocation,andthenclickSave.
5.Whenyouarefinishedrecording,presstheRecordbuttonagaintostoprecording....

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1.NavigatetotheRemoteConsole→HotKeyspage,asshowninFigure67(page123).
Figure67RemoteConsole–HotKeyspage
2.Foreachhotkeythatyouwanttodefine,selectthekeycombinationtosendtotheremote
server.
Toconfigurehotkeystogeneratekeysequencesfrominternationalkeyboards,selectthekey
onaU.S.keyboardthatisinthesamepositionasthedesiredkeyontheinternational
keyboard.Table9(page123)liststheavailablekeys.
Table9Keysforconfiguringhotkeys
g1SCRLLCKESC
h2SYSRQL_ALT
I3F1R_ALT
j4F2L_SHIFT
k5F3R_SHIFT
l6F4L_CTRL
m7F5R_CTRL...

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Table9Keysforconfiguringhotkeys(continued)
yd.BACKSPACE
ze/NUMPLUS
f0NUMMINUS
3.ClickSaveHotKeys.
Thefollowingmessageappears:
Remote Console Hot Keys settings successful.
Resettinghotkeys
Resettingthehotkeysclearsallcurrenthot-keyassignments.
1.NavigatetotheRemoteConsole→HotKeyspage,asshowninFigure67(page123).
2.ClickResetHotKeys.
3.Thefollowingmessageappears:
Are you sure you want to reset all hot keys?
4.ClickOK.
Thefollowingmessageappears:
Remote Console Hot Keys reset successful....

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IMPORTANT:TostartiLORBSUduringaVirtualSerialPortsession,enterthekeycombination
ESC+8.
•Establishaloginsessionwiththeoperatingsystem,interactwiththeoperatingsystem;and
executeandinteractwithapplicationsontheoperatingsystem.
•ForaniLOrunningLinuxinagraphicalformat,youcanconfiguregetty()ontheserver
serialport,andthenusetheiLOVirtualSerialPorttoviewaloginsessiontotheLinuxoperating
system.Formoreinformation,see“ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortforLinux”(page128)....

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9.SelectBIOSSerialConsole&EMS,andthenpressEnter.
NOTE:EMSisforWindowsonly.
10.SelectBIOSSerialConsolePort,andthenpressEnter.
11.SelecttheCOMportthatmatchesthevalueselectedinstep7,andthenpressEnter,asshown
inFigure69(page126).
Figure69ConfiguringtheBIOSSerialConsolePort
12.SelectBIOSSerialConsoleBaudRate,andthenpressEnter.
13.Select115200,andthenpressEnter,asshowninFigure70(page127).
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Figure70ConfiguringtheBIOSSerialConsoleBaudRate
NOTE:ThecurrentimplementationoftheiLOVirtualSerialPortdoesnotuseaphysical
UART,sotheBIOSSerialConsoleBaudRatevaluewillhavenoeffectontheactualspeedthe
iLOVirtualSerialPortwillusetosendandreceivedatafromthesystem.
14.SelectEMSConsole,andthenpressEnter.
15.SelecttheCOMportthatmatchesthevalueselectedinstep7,andthenpressEnter,asshown
inFigure71(page128).
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Figure71ConfiguringtheEMSConsole
16.ExitthesystemRBSU.
ConfiguringtheiLOVirtualSerialPortforLinux
YoucanmanageLinuxserversremotelyusingconsoleredirection.ToconfigureLinuxtouseconsole
redirection,youmustconfiguretheLinuxbootloader(GRUB).Theboot-loaderapplicationloads
fromthebootabledevicewhentheserversystemROMfinishesPOST.Definetheserialinterface
(ttyS0)asthedefaultinterfacesothatifnoinputarrivesfromthelocalkeyboardwithin10seconds...

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AfterLinuxisfullybooted,aloginconsolecanberedirectedtotheserialport.
•Ifconfigured,the/dev/ttyS0and/dev/ttyS1devicesenableyoutoobtainserialTTY
sessionsthroughtheiLOVirtualSerialPort.Tobeginashellsessiononaconfiguredserial
port,addthefollowinglinetothe/etc/inittabfiletostarttheloginprocessautomatically
duringsystemboot.
Thefollowingexampleinitiatestheloginconsoleon/dev/ttyS0:
S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS0 vt100
Thefollowingexampleinitiatestheloginconsoleondev/ttys1:...

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FormoreinformationaboutthesecurityofthecommunicationmethodsusedbyiLO,seethe
IntegratedLights-OutsecuritytechnologybriefontheHPwebsiteathttp://h20000.www2.hp.com/
bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00212796/c00212796.pdf.
WhenyouusetheText-basedRemoteConsole,thepresentationofcolors,characters,andscreen
controlsdependsontheclientyouareusing,whichcanbeanystandardSSHclientcompatible
withiLO.Featuresandsupportincludethefollowing:
•Displayoftext-modescreensthatare80x25(standardcolorconfigurations),including:...
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