Controlling your server

Keystroke mappings

During console redirection, the remote terminal (which may be a dumb terminal or a system with a modem running a communication program) sends keystrokes to the local server. The local server passes video back over this same link. The keystroke mappings follow VT-UTF8 format with the following extensions.

Setting up alias keys

The DEL and CTRL + (function key) combinations are synonyms for the F2 or Setup key. These are not prompted for in screen messages. These hotkeys are defined only for console redirection support and are not used on locally attached keyboards.

Standalone ESC key for headless operation

To complete an escape sequence, the timeout must be two seconds for entering additional characters following an escape.

■ESC followed by a two-second pause is interpreted as a single escape.

■ESC followed within two seconds by one or more characters that are not forming a sequence described in this document are interpreted as ESC + the character, or characters, not an escape sequence.

All of the escape sequences in the following table are input sequences, that is, they are sent to the BIOS from the remote terminal.

Escape SequenceDescription

 

 

ESC + R + ESC + R + ESC + R

REmote console reset

This will implement but will default to “disabled.”

 

 

 

 

ESC + (

BMC Mux switch escape sequence

 

 

ESC + CDZi + (terminal-type-number)

Dynamic Terminal Type choice, where:

 

0

= PC-ANSI (the only current terminal type)

 

1

= VT100 (not implemented, but honored as VT100+)

 

2

= VT100+

 

3

= VT-UTF8

 

 

ESC + CDZ0

Inhibit console redirection

 

 

ESC + CDZ1

Restart console redirection

 

 

ESC + CDZ2

“Soft” inhibit console redirection, without serial port or

 

modem reset.

 

 

 

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