solterm - Man Page
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.
See Also
Known Problems
None
Author
Darius Davis <dariusd@users.sourceforge.net>