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Date:      Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:53:12 +0200
From:      Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: accessing HP iLO virtual console
Message-ID:  <20171021125312.Horde.dhjBrZqDcg7ydbKkS_Wc0ma@webmail.nethead.se>
In-Reply-To: <20171020103216.GC1393@mordor.lan>

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Quoting Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city>:

> Hello,
>
> I used to access the iLO virtual consoles of my HP servers through the
> web interface and the JVM plugin.. Now that JVM is slowly dying and
> unsupported by latest Firefox release I'm wondering how to access the
> Virtual Serial Console through SSH ..?
>
> After $> ssh my.ilo.host I'm issuing:
> </>hpiLO-> textcons
> but I'm getting a: "Monitor is in graphics mode or an unsupported text
> mode." (I guess it's some sort of incompatibility with vt..)
> I also tried:
> </>hpiLO-> VSP
>
> Virtual Serial Port Active: COM1
>
> Starting virtual serial port.
> Press 'ESC (' to return to the CLI Session.
>
> .. and then it freezes..
>

Are you sure COM1 is appropriate? All I have seen is on COM2, I think  
the Proliant's are shipped with that port as the standard virtual.   
//per




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