Yes it is. I recently bought a 24-port PoE hub on Ebay which has the same. You can get serial console cables from either Ebay or Amazon quite easily. They are often billed as 'Cisco configuration' cables. On 11/07/2021 12:31, Rob Hudson wrote: > Is that the port which looks like an ethernet jack? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chris Brannon <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 04:16:26 -0700 > Subject: Re: Installing OS on rackmount server > >> Michal 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
