Newer Windows Server images on Azure have Special Administration Console (SAC) enabled by default. SAC is supported on server versions of Windows but isn't available on client versions (for example, Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7).
The Azure portal or Azure CLI act as remote terminals to the virtual machine serial port. As these terminals can't directly connect to the servers which host the virtual machine over the network, an intermediate service gateway is used to proxy the terminal traffic. Azure Serial Console doesn't store or process this customer data. The intermediate service gateway that transfers the data will reside in the geography of the virtual machine.
I would like the serial number of a windows device/server to populate the proper fields to be used with solarwinds reports. There is no reason to type this information in to a serial number property the OS provides it several ways.
I just imported the "server serial number" template into the Orion APM engine. I can now see the server's serial number via the APM module. How do I create a report to give me a list of all the Windows servers with their coresponding serial numbers?
I'm trying to initiate a console session to an HP Procurve switch. I have a null modem cable connected on one end to an older Dell server and on the other end to an HP Procurve switch (model J4904A/2848).
When I look in the device manager on the server, there are no COM ports listed. I thought it might be an issues with Server 2019 since I'd seen a few google results about that being an issue, but older OSs are having the same problem.
okay so this has been educational. This server has a bmc/ipmi remote interface. Apparently this is separate from the serial interface and if both are enabled, you can only use the serial interface for controlling the server remotely. Disabling the serial remote control connection enables the port without affecting the bmc/ipmi. A bit unintuitive, but at least I understand now.
Great project and write-up thanks for sharing. For variety, just wanted to mention that the same can achieved using Conserver with SSH connection (instead of ser2net). Conserver can also log output from serial ports so you can see what happened whilst you were not connected and watching. Just got a PI 4 B for Christmas. Will be migrating this to PI soon.
Ability to run as a service has been the main reason for developing the new version. Running HW VSP as a standalone application requires starting it under a logged-in user and therefore prevents autonomous operation on Windows servers. (At this time, HW VSP fully supports Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server. Support for Windows 2008 Server is being tested.) In this mode, HW VSP consists of a client-side part (setup GUI) and a server-side part (the service itself). Parameters of a VSP running on a remote server can be easily changed from a local PC. However, in order to improve stability, only one user may access the service and change virtual port parameters at a time. Furthermore, since service administration requires administrator privileges, securing a VSP against misuse is as simple as not installing the client-side part.
This function allows connecting VSP to the port previously created and opened by the client application. This function is useful for servers, where it eliminates the need to close the corresponding virtual port before restarting server or the VSP service.
With the introduction of the multi-port version, VSP configuration is now stored in an INI file instead of the system registry. Therefore, configuration can be easily backed up or restored to another PC or server simply by copying the file and restarting the service. The INI file contains a complete VSP configuration, enabling the user to create a custom graphical interface to generate the INI file. Upon restarting the service, the INI file is loaded and the port parameters are changed - no need to study the complexities of controlling services. WC VSP for WirelesCOM is an example of such a customized application.
Perle offers a complete line of products that consolidate serial console access using strong security and data encryption and providing fault-tolerant models with dual Ethernet and dual power supplies for ultimate reliability. Serial, USB, and Ethernet console management port densities up to 50 ports are available giving customers the ability to connect all of their Windows, Linux, Solaris and Unix servers, network and infrastructure equipment by using the same console management system.
Customers who want a single solution for all of their Windows and non-Windows network and telecom equipment can upgrade their Windows servers to take advantage of he EMS features. Using a Perle Console Server, they can reduce equipment and operating costs, minimize network downtime, and add secure remote access to all systems for remote console management.
When you use a third-party SSH client that isn't the Google Cloud CLI,you can ensure that you're protected against impersonation orman-in-the-middle attacks by checking Google's Serial Port server SSH key.To set up your system to check the server SSH key, complete the followingsteps:
Add the contents of the server SSH key, with ssh-serialport.googleapis.comprepended to the key. For example, if the server key contains the linessh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc..., then /.ssh/known_hosts should have a linelike this:
For security reasons, Google might occasionally change the Google SerialPort server SSH key. If your client fails to authenticate the server key,immediately end the connection attempt and complete the earlier steps todownload a new Google Serial Port server SSH key.
The main CI's serial number field will have the baseboard serial used, instead of BIOS serial number for Windows servers/desktops patterns for discovery, which is incompatible with what other plugins that populate the CMDB, such as SCCM.
2) Add a mid server property (introduced in the earlier fix, valid for this workaround as well), as documented in KB0786378 - BaesBoard Serial number is populated on the serial number record instead of the BIOS Serial number for windows servers:
While working through a tutorial on setting up an AppInventor Bluetooth Client, I came across a Windows feature (setting) that I had not used before - the Standard Serial over Bluetooth link. The tutorial shows how to set up a BLE client on the tablet to interact with a serial terminal on the PC (server). AppInventor has a nice set of BLE programming blocks and the client construction and deployment was straightforward following the tutorial. Both the tablet and PC were visible to each other and I had no problem pairing them. Connecting a serial terminal on the PC requires a connection to a BLE COM port. The tutorial indicates that you can locate the COM port using the Device Manager once the tablet is paired. However, there was no "Standard Serial over Bluetooth" showing in the COM ports list. I'm not sure if this is because I don't have integrated WiFi or Bluetooth adapters on this desktop PC - I use a USB dongle (Edimax N150) to add that functionality.
Select the "Serial" tree item in PUTTY on the left side of the little window. Then enter the connection data of your choice into the form on the right side. First of all consider the correct name of the COM-Port which you can find in the device manager (hardware manager) of windows and the baud rate.
Putty works well on Linux and offers some convenience, especially for serial communications. It has one drawback I haven't been able to directly solve: no copy-paste from the Putty window itself. The windows version has a lovely auto-copy to clipboard on highlight, right-click to paste behaviour (and there are excellent plugins for both chrome and firefox to enable the same behavior), but on Linux, no copy love AFAIK.
Pro: doesn't have obvious security problems like minicom or picocom (if you don't have a problem giving the users shell access, no problem, but you most likely do have one if you want to set up a terminal server...)
I'm trying to implement a protocol over serial port on a windows(xp) machine.The problem is that message synchronization in the protocol is done via a gap in the messages, i.e., x millisecond gap between sent bytes signifies a new message.Now, I don't know if it is even possible to accurately detect this gap.
I'm using win32/serport.h api to read in one of the many threads of our server. Data from the serial port gets buffered, so if there is enough (and there will be enough) latency in our software, I will get multiple messages from the port buffer in one sequence of reads.
Also this particular relevance condition is only works for windows systems. Actually in our infra we have many non windows machines ( AIX and Linux ). Please let me know any relevance condition to know server id on non windows machines.
We have a situation where some blade servers running windows that report logical serial number (starting with VCX or VCY) instead of the actual physical serial number when querying Win32_BIOS and Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WMI classes.
Haven't setup a VC profile in awhile so I don't recall if setting the serial number is profile specific, or chassis specific. If it can be done at the profile level, create a new profile using the sysem serial number instead of a VC provided one and move the server to the new profile.
Note: To turn EMS off again, issue the command: bootcfg /ems off /id 1 where 1 is the boot entry you have modified in the above steps. Reboot to bring the changes online.
Using SMBridge
Now that the remote server's BIOS and Windows operating system have been properly configured for SOL, the next step is to connect using SMBridge. The instructions in this section show the commands needed to connect to the remote server and start a command prompt session with Windows. For full details of the available SMBridge and Microsoft SAC commands, see section 6.4 of the IBM Redbook, IBM eServer xSeries and BladeCenter Server Management, SG24-6495.