topic Re: access the remote text console doesnÂ´t work in Server Management - Remote Server Management

access the remote text console doesnÂ´t work

Tobias Jochmann — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:14:34 GMT

Hi
iÂ´d like to access the remote text console
but in my browser is only a button called
"remote console" if i choose this java opened and tells me "graphical remote console is an ilo advanced feature..."
But i just want to open the text console
WhatÂ´s wrong??

Greetings
To

Re: access the remote text console doesnÂ´t work

David Claypool — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:47:43 GMT

Think of the remote console as being a way to access whatever is on the screen of the server if you were actually there looking at it. If the screen is in graphics mode, that's what you would see, and without an Advanced license, iLO can't display that on the remote console.

If the OS is Linux or Windows Server 2003, newer versions of the firmware have something called the Virtual Serial Console that replicates the function that is available when connecting up to the server through a serial port with a command line interface. Windows 2000 doesn't have this feature.

Re: access the remote text console doesnÂ´t work

acartes — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:00:29 GMT

It means that iLO believes that the host is in a graphical console mode. Even a command-prompt is a graphical mode if it is in a window. You might want to temporarily activate iLO Advanced with a 30-day evaluation license key:

http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/ilo/iloeval.html

Let us know what you find.

Re: access the remote text console doesnÂ´t work

Tobias Jochmann — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:19:05 GMT

The "problem" was, that the console screen of the server has a resolution of 1024x768. But now it works

Thanks