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 chatacter 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. Suppported 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 modifeid 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

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