Keyboard Curiosity

[Lazarevic Komac, Mladen]

Try to log into server via ILO port / web gui or via telnet/ then to use iLO to get on server when it is booting ...

User guide for iLO 2 you can find on location: http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02845760/c02845760.pdf (Page 95 of 224)

Text-based remote console overview

iLO and its predecessors support a true text-based remote console. Video information is obtained
from the server and the contents of the video memory are sent to the management processor,
compressed, encrypted, and forwarded to the management client application. iLO uses a
screen-frame buffer, which detects changes in text information, encrypts the changes, and sends
the characters (including screen positioning information) to text-based client applications. This
method provides compatibility with standard text-based clients, good performance, and simplicity.
However, you cannot display non-ASCII or graphical information, and screen positioning information
(displayed characters) might be sent out of order.

The Remote Console uses Virtual KVM and does not provide a true text-based console. iLO 2 uses
the video adapter DVO port to access video memory directly. This method significantly increases
iLO 2 performance. However, the digital video stream does not contain useful text data. Data
obtained from the DVO port represents graphical data (non-character-based), and is not
comprehensible ASCII or text data. This video data cannot be rendered by a text-based client
application such as Telnet or SSH.

Text-based console during POST

The standard iLO 2 text-based remote console remains available on iLO 2 until the operating system
POST is complete. iLO 2 standard firmware continues to use the virtualized serial-port functionality
of the management processor. On the iLO 2 firmware, the virtual serial port was renamed Remote
Serial Console. iLO 2 uses the Remote Serial Console to access a pre-operating system, text-based
iLO 2 Remote Console 95
remote console. The iLO 2 Remote Serial Console applet appears as a text-based console, but the
information is rendered using graphical video data. iLO 2 displays this information through the
remote console applet while in the server pre-operating system state, enabling a non-licensed iLO
2 to observe and interact with the server during POST activities.
For an iLO 2 blade (and an iLO blade running Linux in a graphical format), enter getty() on
the server's serial port, and then use iLO 2 Remote Serial Console or iLO Virtual Serial Port (CLP
command start /system1/oemhp_vsp1) to view a login session to the Linux operating system
through the serial port.
A non-licensed iLO 2 cannot use Remote Console access after the server completes POST and
begins to load the operating system. To use Remote Console and iLO Text Console after POST,
you must have an iLO 2 Advanced or iLO 2 Advanced for BladeSystem.

BR.
 Mladen ...

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of MCVenner
Sent: 22. marec 2012 15:34
To: freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
Subject: Keyboard Curiosity

I have an HP ProLiant ML110 G6 Server on which I've installed and configured FreeBSD v7.4-RELEASE.

Though the computer auto-boots uneventfully, I have never been able to interact with the boot loader as no keyboard action is, while it's resident, recognized.

I have tried a number of different keyboards (101-key, 102-key, 104-key; PS/2, USB;  with and without interface adapters) without result.

I find that if I attempt, continuously while booting, to toggle (for
example) the CapsLock key that there is a period during the boot process where the associated CapsLock LED ceases toggling in response.

The period begins at the moment the boot manager's boot-slice selection is satisfied (either via user action or timeout).

The period ends midway through the loading of the kernel;  perhaps as early as status message
   ...  kernel: kbd2 at ukbd0
but, certainly, no later than status message
   ...  kernel: sc09: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 though it's difficult to discern as they go by quickly.

Any suggestions as to how this might be resolved would be appreciated.


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