Bios Serial Console Port

[werty]

HI all.

I am a little confused about what BIOS Serial Console Port is. As far I can see, In the OneView the definition is "option to redirect video and keystrokes through the serial port to operating system boot". But I do not understand why would we use it. If we connect directly through the physical console serial port we should also have those option by default. Then we can set it: Auto or Physical Serial Port or Virtual Serial Port. That makes no sense for me. Can someone help explaining why would we use it ?

Thx.

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1. UEFI System Utilities User Guide for HPE ProLiant Gen9 Servers and HPE Synergy | Configuring the BIOS serial console port

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@werty wrote:

HI all.

I am a little confused about what BIOS Serial Console Port is. As far I can see, In the OneView the definition is "option to redirect video and keystrokes through the serial port to operating system boot". But I do not understand why would we use it. If we connect directly through the physical console serial port we should also have those option by default. Then we can set it: Auto or Physical Serial Port or Virtual Serial Port. That makes no sense for me. Can someone help explaining why would we use it ?

Thx.

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I saw the same here.