Serial Connection to DL 140 and DL 320

[Hicham EL HARTI]

I have a problem connecting a Proliant DL140 and DL320 via the serial interface (COM1). SLES (SuSe) is installed on both machines.

The hyperterminal I used is configured to 9600 8N1. With the same configuration I could connect several other HP plattforms (neu itanium machines, HP 9000, ...)

do I need to configure something else?

Thanks in advance!
Hicham

[Ivan Ferreira]

You need to redirect the console to the serial port and/or enable a getty process to listen in that port.

See:

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Serial/serial-console.html

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

You can also check Serial Port Console Redirection option in BIOS. Enable redirection if it is disabled.

Regards,
Sergejs

[Alan_152]

1) make sure that a GETTY session is up and running on the SLES box, and pointed toward your COM1 port at 9600-8-n-1

2)For a DL-series proliant, you'll need to use a null-modem cable. Other, native *nix boxes use a different serial port hookup (reference: Unix System Administration Handbook, Nemeth et al, chapter 8)

3) On hyperterminal, in addition to the 9600-8-n-1 setting, make try toggling the handshake setting between hardware, off, and xon/xoff. I personally can never remember which machine type requires what handshaking.