Chapter 3: Troubleshooting 3-11 Text Console Redirection (SOL, Serial Over LAN) Figure 3-9 On the Text Console tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 3-9), there is a function for you to remotely control the managed system in a text mode console. Click the Start button to start the text console redirection. During control, click the Re-synch button to synchronize the text console with the managed system if you think the screen is not shown properly. Click the Stop button to stop the text console. SOL for IPMI 2.0 IPMI specification V2.0 defines Serial over LAN (SOL) to support Text Console Redirection.
This implementation performs better than the one we implemented for IPMI 1.5. The Text mode console remains working on Windows 2003, even when the OS is running. To support Text Console Redirection on Windows 2003, Special Administration Console (SAC) must be enabled. The following instruction is used to enable SAC: 3-31