Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:53:19 -0500 From: "John Cagle" <jcagle@gmail.com> To: bfriedman@emax.ca Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the console com port Message-ID: <6863f0c90808011053n6f81c2eci5a6f1f48826a987c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080801172644.GA28300@emax.ca> References: <20080729184452.GA14558@emax.ca> <6863f0c90807291826k55814fe2u837fb60493230c44@mail.gmail.com> <20080801172644.GA28300@emax.ca>
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I'm not sure about that particular option on that particular server, but it probably needs to have a health driver running in order to log it to the IML (integrated management log) which is viewable with iLO. If the server is based on iLO-2, then it should be logged to the IML without having to run a health driver. There is a different thermal shutdown feature of all ProLiants -- when the server/cpu reaches a "temp deadly" setting, the box will immediately shut down. This feature has saved many ProLiant servers during computer room cooling failures over weekends when no one was around... Other servers burned up during those events... John On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Barry Friedman <friedman@www1.emax.ca>wrote: > John, > > Thanks for this. I hadn't noticed the RBSU setup option F9 during boot > and I see that this allows the change of serial port. In the end I > was able to use the standard COM2 port by changing the sio1 flags in > /boot/device.hints and this seems to work in freebsd 7 (also needed to > remove the sio0 flags line and add a boot.config file). > > In examing the RBSU options, I noticed a thermal shutdown option which > was enabled. Is there any chance of this triggering a reboot without > leaving any ILO log messages? > > Barry > > > You wrote: > > You have to use the BIOS configuration utility to configure which COM > port > > resources are used for the iLO Virtual Serial Port. (Also called RBSU - > ROM > > Based Setup Utility.) That utility is either menu driven, or command > line > > driven -- it has its own settings for that choice. > > > > I think the root of the problem Anders was having is that FreeBSD insists > on > > using the ACPI tables to enable serial ports, instead of just > "hardwiring" > > the COM1 and COM2 ports as serial consoles. Maybe if you disable ACPI > you > > can do what Anders wanted to do. > > -- > Barry Friedman > Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z > 5N9 > bfriedman@emax.ca Phone: (613) 725-3198 Fax: 725-0298 >
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