Configuring Serial Console on Bare Metal Systems

Complete the following actions to set up the required serial console on a bare metal system:

  Change the baud rate in the Basic Input/Output Section (BIOS) by following these steps:
      Login into ILOM
      Click Host Management
      Click Host Control
      Select BIOS for the "Next Boot Device:" option
      Click Save
      Click Power Control under "Host Management"
      Restart the machine
      Launch the remote console
      After the machine restarts, select the "Advance" tab
      Click Enter on "Serial Port Console Redirection"
      Change the "bits per second" value to 115200
      Exit and save your changes, then wait for the automatic restart to complete

  Change the ILOM settings by following these steps:
      Login to ILOM
      Click ILOM Administration
      Click Connectivity
      Click the Serial port tab
      Change the Host Serial Port "Baud Rate" value to 115200
      Change the External Serial Port "Baud Rate" value to 115200
      Click "Save"

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Gurudatta N.R

How to find the ILOM Firmware is upgraded or not from the ILOM logs.

It should be in the ILOM directory under the file,@usr@local@bin@spshexec_show_-script_@X@logs@event@list.out


121    Fri Jun 15 05:32:15 2012  System    Log       critical
       upgrade to version 3.0.16.11.e succeeded 

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Gurudatta N.R 

ILOM Java problem No appropriate protocol (protocol is disabled or cipher suites are inappropriate)

 Edit the java.security file  in  and comment the line jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3

 $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security file.

In windows:C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_66\lib\security\java.security


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Gurudatta N.R

What is ILOM?

Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) provides advanced service processor hardware (baseboard management controller) and software that you can use to manage and monitor Database Machine servers.


ILOM’s dedicated hardware and software is pre installed on the Sun X86 Hardware and some SPARC servers,ILOM enables you to actively manage and monitor the server independently of the operating system state (out- of-band). With ILOM, you can:


• Learn about hardware errors and faults as they occur
• Remotely control the power state of your server
• View and use the graphical and non-graphical consoles for the host
• View the current status of sensors and indicators on the system
• Determine the hardware configuration of your system

Ilom Common Network Ports

Port	Protocol	Application
22	SSH over TCP	SSH - Secure Shell
69	TFTP over UDP	TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol (outgoing)
80	HTTP over TCP	Web (user-configurable)
123	NTP over UDP	NTP - Network Time Protocol (outgoing)
161	SNMP over UDP	SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol (user-configurable)
162	IPMI over UDP	IPMI - Platform Event Trap (PET) (outgoing)
389	LDAP over UDP/TCP	LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (outgoing; user-configurable)
443	HTTPS over TCP	Web (user-configurable))
514	Syslog over UDP	Syslog - (outgoing)
623	IPMI over UDP	IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface
546	DHCP over UDP	DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (client)
1812	RADIUS over UDP	RADIUS - Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (outgoing; user-configurable)
SP Network Ports
5120	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: CD
5121	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: Keyboard and Mouse
5123	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: Diskette
5555	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: Encryption
5556	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: Authentication
6481	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: Servicetag Daemon
7578	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: Video
7579	TCP	Oracle ILOM Remote Console: Serial
CMM Network Ports
8000 - 8023	HTTP over TCP	Oracle ILOM drill-down to server modules (blades)
8400 - 8423	HTTPS over TCP	Oracle ILOM drill-down to server modules (blades)
8200 - 8219	HTTP over TCP	Oracle ILOM drill-own to NEMs
8600 - 8619 Note: Shared by  Friend.	HTTPS over TCP	Oracle ILOM drill-down to NEMs

In-band management, Out-of-band management Side-band management ?

● In-band management = talking to the host OS (Solaris, Linux, Windows) and agents.
● Out-of-band management = talk to the SP on a private network.
● Side-band management = talk to the SP on the host’s network.

Regards
Gurudatta N.R