Serial Over LAN is a mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port of a managed system to be redirected via an IPMI session over IP. On some managed systems, notably blade server systems the serial ports on the managed computers are not normally connected to a traditional serial port socket. To allow users to access applications on these computers via the serial port, the input/output of the serial port is redirected to the network. For example a user wishing to access a Blade that is running Linux via the serial port can telnet to a network address and log in. On the Blade the login will be seen as coming through the serial port. SOL is implemented as a payload type under the new payload capability in RMCP plus.
