Starting an SOL session

After you start a Telnet or SSH session to the BladeCenter® management module, you can start an SOL session to any individual blade server that supports SOL.

Note: Serial over LAN (SOL) must be enabled for both the BladeCenter unit and the blade server before you can start an SOL session with the blade server. See sol (serial over LAN) command and the BladeCenter Serial over LAN Setup Guide for information about setting up and enabling SOL.

Because you can start up to 20 separate Web interface, Telnet, or SSH sessions to the BladeCenter management module, simultaneous SOL sessions can be active for each blade server installed in the BladeCenter unit.

Start an SOL session by using the console command, from the command line, indicating the target blade server. For example, to start an SOL connection to the blade server in blade bay 6, type

                  console -T system:blade[6]

Note: A blade server assembly that occupies more than one blade server bay is identified by the lowest bay number that it occupies.

After an SOL session is started, all commands are sent to the blade server that is specified by the console command until the SOL session is ended, regardless of the persistent command target that was in effect before the SOL session.

See sol (serial over LAN) command and the IBM BladeCenter Serial over LAN Setup Guide for information about configuring a blade server for SOL. See your operating-system documentation for information about SOL commands that you can enter by using the command-line interface.