Intel MPCBL0010 manual Serial Over LAN SOL, References, SOL Architecture, SOL Implementation

Serial Over LAN (SOL)—MPCBL0010 SBC

11.0Serial Over LAN (SOL)

Serial over LAN (SOL) is a packet format and protocol defined in the IPMI v2.0 specification for transmitting serial port data over Ethernet using IPMI over LAN (RMCP+) messages. This two-way redirection of a blade's serial port data over Ethernet is independent of the operating system or any applications executing on it. The BIOS also supports redirection of its console over serial port, which can be redirected over the network for remote access.

The SOL mechanism, coupled with a SOL client utility executing on a remote node, enables viewing of serial port data from any IPMI v2.0-based, SOL-enabled blade, and thus provides a virtual remote terminal server for accessing a blade’s serial port character stream.

11.1References

•Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification v2.0. dated June 1, 2004

•AES - Advanced Encryption Standard. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/ fips197/fips-197.pdf

11.2SOL Architecture

The SOL implementation on the MPCBL0010 Single Board Computer is based on the definition in Section 15 of the IPMI v2.0 specification.

11.2.1SOL Implementation

Serial over LAN (SOL) enables suitably designed blades and servers to transparently redirect a serial character stream of a baseboard UART to/from a remote client via LAN over RMCP+ sessions. This capability enables users at remote consoles to access the serial port of a blade/server and interact with a text-based BIOS console, operating system, command line interfaces, and serial text-based applications.

	Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0010 Single Board Computer
October 2006	Technical Product Specification
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