HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 187)

# shownode roles --role management_hub
2. Log in to the console with the console command. You can specify either the internal name
or the host name. This example uses the internal name icelx16 instead of the host name
mercury:
$ console icelx16
Locating server for icelx16
Server for icelx16 is mercury.example.com
Press <ESC><Shift>q to exit
login:
IMPORTANT: The console command may not be able to connect to the system console if
the dates on the management hubs are not synchronized.
3. Press the Enter key to obtain a prompt:
Enter
icelx version as of date
icelx16 login:
4. Enter the user name and password for that system's console:
icelx16 login: your_username
passwd: your_password
5. Enter the escape character returned by the console command in Step 2 to end the connection.
To exit the console command, press ESC-Shift-Q.
The output of the console command is logged in the
/hptc_cluster/adm/logs/cmf.dated/date/console-name.log
file, where date
indicates the date the command ran, and console-name indicates the console.
22.4 Serial connections on DL100 series servers
Use the serial over LAN option of the ipmitool command as indicated in the following procedure
for a serial console connection to DL100 Series servers. Your input is sent to the serial console on
the remote server.
1.
Enter the ipmitool command:
# ipmitool -H host-name-cp -I lanplus -U username -P passwd sol activate
Where
host-name -cp Designates the console port of the host.
lanplus Specifies the lanplus interface. For more information, see ipmitool(1).
username Indicates the name of the user account.
passwd Indicates the password for the user account.
2. When prompted for additional kernel options, enter the following:
console=ttyS0
For more information, see ipmitool(1) for more information.
22.5 Enabling telnet access to iLO management processors
NOTE: The telnet utility is not available on G7 servers.
IMPORTANT: The telnet protocol transmits the user name and password in clear text over the
network to the iLO management processor. HP does not recommend using telnet if your
environment is untrusted.
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