ODA ILOM CLI Console Seems Hung and Snapshot Output has Unexpected Characters

Asset ID:	1-72-1605718.1
Update Date:	2015-05-29
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Solution Type Problem Resolution Sure

Solution 1605718.1 : ODA ILOM CLI Console Seems Hung and Snapshot Output has Unexpected Characters

Applies to:

Oracle Database Appliance - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

ILOM CLI seemed to be hung - for example:

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Oracle(R) Integrated Lights Out Manager

Version 3.0.16.22.c r80379

Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

-> start /SP/console
Are you sure you want to start /SP/console (y/n)? y

Serial console started. To stop, type ESC (

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No other keystrokes are changing the above output.

If you take an ILOM snapshot, then you see unexpected characters such as the following in hostconsole log (@persist@hostconsole.log.1):

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1724 Feb 25 2012 [00mnfs[00m
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 29 2012 [01;34mmkinitrd[00m
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3604 Apr 20 2012 [00mautofs[00m
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 76 May 21 2012 [01;32msnmptrapd.options[00m
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85 May 21 2012 [01;32msnmpd.options[00m
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1229 Jun 26 2012 [00mkdump[00m
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 9 2012 [01;34mconsole[00m

The Web ILOM interface works without issue.

The validation output from /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli validation shows no problems.

Cause

There might be an incorrect setting in the ILOM for the baud rate.

Solution

Check the following setting and ensure commitpending=true:

-> set /SP/serial/host commitpending=true
Set 'commitpending' to 'true'

Then try to start your console 'start /SP/console'.

If you are still seeing the unexpected characters in the output: you may need to 'reset /SP', and then try to start the console with 'start /SP/console'.

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