Section 1 · User commands

solterm.1

Package: OpenIPMI

solterm

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
KNOWN PROBLEMS
AUTHOR

NAME

solterm − An IPMI Serial over LAN program

SYNOPSIS

solterm

<connection parms> [−e escape_char] [−notencrypted] [−notauthenticated] [−bitrate (9600|19200|38400|57600|115200)] [-alerts (succeed|defer|fail)] [−holdoff] [−ack-retries n] [−ack-timeout microseconds] [−v] [−q]

DESCRIPTION

The solterm program allows a user to make a remote serial connection over IPMI. The requires that the remote system support IPMI 2.0 Serial Over LAN.

OPTIONS

<connection parms>

The parameters for the connection depend on the connection type. These are all described in openipmi_conparms (7)

**−e **escape_char

The character to use to escape, or exit, the program. Entering this character right after a newline is entered causes the program to go into command mode. A single character after this performs a command. The default escape character is ”~” as shown below. Supported commands are:


	~.		Terminate the program
	~B		Send a serial BREAK over the connection
	~F		Flush all buffers
	~R		Assert the Ring Indicator (RI) line
	~r		Deassert the Ring Indicator (RI) line
	~D		Assert DCD and DSR lines
	~d		Deassert DCD and DSR lines
	~C		Pause the output using CTS
	~c		Put CTS under BMC control
	~?		Help on escape commands
	~~		Enter the escape character twice to send it.

−notencrypted

Do not encrypt the SOL data going over the connection.

−notauthenticated

Do not do integrity checks on the SOL data going over the connection.

−bitrate

Set the bitrate to the given value. The default is whatever the BMC has set it to.

−alerts

This specifies what to do if a alert that requires a callout occurs on the line.
succeed

specifies that serial/modem alerts are to succeed while SoL is active.

deferred

specifies that serial/modem alerts are to be deferred for the duration of the SoL session.


	fail		specifies that serial/modem alerts automatically fail during the SoL session. This is the default.

−holdoff

Specifies that CTS, DTR, and DSR are to be deasserted at the start of the SoL session so that the configuration may be modified before the handshake is released.


	−v		Be more verbose. Maybe specified multiple time for more output.
	−q		Be less verbose. Maybe specified multiple time for less output.

KNOWN PROBLEMS

None

AUTHOR

Darius Davis <dariusd@users.sourceforge.net>