ssh ilo question

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote:

> On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
>
>> > Sorry, I forgot to mention that the Remote Console feature in the *web
>> > browser* with iLO-2 only provides access to POST (the BIOS boot
>> > screens). If you want to use the graphical remote console after the OS
>> > is loaded, you will need to upgrade to iLO 2 Advanced -- which gives you
>> > a key to enable the graphical remote console.
>> 
>> 'k, then what is "Virtual KVM text mode"?  That *sounds* like the same as
>> the REMCONS I've been using so far ... no?
>
>
> "Virtual KVM text mode" is referring to using the Web interface to 
> access the Graphical Console -- as I said earlier iLO is using a DVI 
> type connection to the video controller, so it cannot tell if the system 
> is in text or graphics mode.  With iLO-2 this is not available in the 
> Telnet/SSH interface (which is textual only) because iLO-2 cannot 
> "screen-scrape" the text off of the graphical screen.

Okay, excuse me for being dense here, but I just want to make sure that 
I'm not going to regret upgrading to iLO-2 ...

Accessing iLO-2 through the web browser, and starting up the Remote 
Console within the web browser (ie. getting the Java one) will still give 
me all the features (BIOS and Operating System console) that I'm getting 
out of iLO-1 right now ... its only if I want/need to go in through SSH 
will I no longer be able to do this ...

Is that correct?

If so, is there an upgrade I can put onto my new server to get iLO-2?  Or 
will that only be available on new servers?  The 'environment stuff' 
really has me intrigued, and I haven't put anything critical onto that 
server yet ...

As is expected, going to:

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/lights-out/us/family/model/6220.html

I'm finding all the Linux/Windows/Netware stuff ...

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