SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles

[Steven Hartland]

On 11/11/2014 17:30, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I'm trying to set up sol console for supermicro servers, reading some documents
> including TestClusterOne, mainly:
>
>> For serial redirection to work, in the BIOS you need to redirect to com port
>> B and in /boot/device.hints you need hint.uart.1.flags="0x10" and enable getty on
>> cuau1
> I can see BIOS screen ok; boot1/2 and boot/loader work fine also.  However, I
> could not see kernel console output via SOL, neither getty on ttyu1 works.
> I tried different speeds, std vs 3wire, explicitely set console=comconsole
> vidconsole -- no luck.
>
> I even trued to use `ipmitool sol activate' on one side and `tip -115200 com2'
> on the other -- stiil no data between.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks!
>
> For the reference:
>
> marck at centipede:~> ipmitool -H mc26.int -U root -I lanplus sol info
> Password:
> Set in progress                 : set-complete
> Enabled                         : true
> Force Encryption                : false
> Force Authentication            : false
> Privilege Level                 : USER
> Character Accumulate Level (ms) : 0
> Character Send Threshold        : 0
> Retry Count                     : 0
> Retry Interval (ms)             : 0
> Volatile Bit Rate (kbps)        : 115.2
> Non-Volatile Bit Rate (kbps)    : 115.2
> Payload Channel                 : 1 (0x01)
> Payload Port                    : 623
>
This is what we use: 
http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2012/12/freebsd-serial-over-lan/