Emerson PMPPC7448 Monitor: Accessing the Console Over Ethernet, Monitor Command Reference

Monitor: Accessing the Console Over Ethernet

ACCESSING THE CONSOLE OVER ETHERNET

To interact with the monitor command line over Ethernet, use the NetConsole feature built into the monitor and an appropriate client application. This feature sends and receives UDP packets to and from a designated host on the network. Execute the following commands, inserting the appropriate data in the italicized fields:

If necessary, edit your network settings:

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.100

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv gatewayip 192.168.1.1

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv netmask 255.255.255.0

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv serverip 10.64.16.168

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv ethport all,porta,portb,portc

Select the host running the client application and the designated UDP port on which to communicate:

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv ncip 10.64.16.167:6667

Optionally, save your settings:

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => saveenv

Prepare the client application on the host, and finally enable NetConsole:

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv stdin nc\;setenv stdout nc

Any combination of standard input (stdin), output (stdout) and error message (stderr) streams can be redirected over Ethernet. When an input or output stream is redirected over Ethernet, it ceases to work over a serial cable. However, the streams can be redirected back to serial from within NetConsole:

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv stdin serial\;setenv stdout serial

These message stream settings cannot be saved and will revert back to serial on reset. To enable NetConsole on reset, the appropriate commands must be placed in either the bootcmd or preboot environment variable. To be able to skip the autoboot process using NetConsole, it makes sense to enable NetConsole in preboot:

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => setenv preboot setenv stdin nc\;setenv stdout nc

Optionally, save your settings:

PM/PPC-7448 (1.8) => saveenv

MONITOR COMMAND REFERENCE

This section describes the syntax and typographic conventions for the PmPPC7448 monitor commands. Subsequent sections in this chapter describe individual commands, which fall into the following categories: boot, memory, Flash, environment variables, test, and other commands.

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