IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II manual Serial-to-serial redirection

vYou update the Remote Supervisor Adapter II firmware. For information about obtaining Remote Supervisor Adapter II firmware and software, see the Installation Guide.

vYour operating system has serial support for text management in the operating system. The following operating systems have serial support:

–Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with emergency management services for serial console support

–Linux operating systems with Agetty serial console support

Serial-to-serial redirection

Serial-to-serial redirection enables the Remote Supervisor Adapter II to pass data between COM1 and COM2. This mode is useful when a single serial connection is required to a client computer or a hardware terminal server.

When serial authentication is enabled, the serial command-line interface session is authenticated through the local logon profiles or through an LDAP server.

For serial redirection quick setup information, see “Serial redirection quick setup” on page 86.

To set up the software configuration for serial-to-serial redirection configuration, complete the following steps:

1.Log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II on which you want to configure the serial port. For more information, see Chapter 2, “Opening and using the Web interface,” on page 5.

2.In the navigation pane, click Serial Port. A page similar to the one in the following illustration is displayed.

3.In the Serial Port 1 area, set the following values for the fields:

a.In the Port function field, select Serial redirect.

Note: The serial ports are enabled independently for serial redirection. For serial-to-serial redirection, both ports must be set to Serial redirect. The available options for COM1 are Modem alerting, PPP, and Serial redirect. If COM2 is enabled, it supports only serial redirection.

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