HP Integrated Lights-Out 3 - Manual (Page 124)

Table 9 Keys for configuring hot keys (continued)
y d . BACKSPACE
z e / NUM PLUS
f 0 NUM MINUS
3. Click Save Hot Keys.
The following message appears:
Remote Console Hot Keys settings successful.
Resetting hot keys
Resetting the hot keys clears all current hot-key assignments.
1.
Navigate to the Remote Console
→Hot Keys page, as shown in
Figure 67 (page 123) .
2. Click Reset Hot Keys.
3. The following message appears:
Are you sure you want to reset all hot keys?
4. Click OK.
The following message appears:
Remote Console Hot Keys reset successful.
Using the text-based Remote Console
iLO supports a true text-based Remote Console. Video information is obtained from the server, and
the contents of the video memory are sent to the iLO management processor, compressed, encrypted,
and forwarded to the management client application. iLO uses a screen-frame buffer that sends
the characters (including screen positioning information) to text-based client applications. This
method ensures compatibility with standard text-based clients, good performance, and simplicity.
However, you cannot display non-ASCII or graphical information, and screen positioning information
(displayed characters) might be sent out of order.
iLO uses the video adapter DVO port to access video memory directly. This method increases iLO
performance significantly. However, the digital video stream does not contain useful text data.
This data cannot be rendered by a text-based client application such as SSH.
There are two text-based console options, as described in the following sections:
•
“Using the iLO Virtual Serial Port” (page 124)
•
“Using the Text-based Remote Console (Textcons)” (page 129)
Using the iLO Virtual Serial Port
You can access a text-based console from iLO using a standard license and the iLO Virtual Serial
Port.
The iLO Virtual Serial Port is one type of iLO text-based remote console. The iLO Virtual Serial Port
gives you a bidirectional data flow with a server serial port. Using the remote console, you can
operate as if a physical serial connection exists on the remote server serial port.
The iLO Virtual Serial Port is displayed as a text-based console, but the information is rendered
through graphical video data. iLO displays this information through an SSH client when the server
is in a pre-operating-system state, enabling a nonlicensed iLO to observe and interact with the
server during POST activities.
By using the iLO Virtual Serial Port, the remote user can perform operations such as the following:
•
Interact with the server POST sequence and the operating system boot sequence.
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