Chris, I didn't know any of this. Going to file it away. Thanks. Mike On 11/07/2021 12:16, Chris Brannon wrote: > Michał Zegan <webczat_200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> serial console >>> any screenreader for anything text mode IMO. do you >> have a serial console and any way to make it usable? > > Any rackmount server worth owning is going to have IPMI with SOL (serial over > LAN). When I set up our rackmount server late last year, we put a DHCP > server and ipmitool on a Raspberry Pi and plugged that puppy into the > IPMI network interface on the server. The Pi handed out an IP address > for the server's IPMI over DHCP, and we logged into the Pi through ssh > to run ipmitool to configure the server. In this setup, the Pi was > connected to our home network through wifi. > > You may need to enable serial over LAN in the BIOS. We got lucky and it > was pre-configured for us. > > Serial over LAN also gives you a serial console for the BIOS, once it is > enabled. You get full boot-up to shutdown access. > > So hopefully your server has IPMI and SOL. > > -- Chris > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK cismale het "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery
