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Dell iDRAC6 virtual console viewer from GNU/Linux command line
assuming iDRAC IP is 10.64.31.76
download this file https://10.64.31.76:443/software/avctKVM.jar from your idrac
run:
java -cp Downloads/avctKVM.jar com.avocent.idrac.kvm.Main ip=10.64.31.76 kmport=...
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ping command is not printing result to the console
This is normal behavior.
The Linux version of ping does not print any output if there is no reply or ICMP error response to the ping. Nor is there an option to cause it to print any such reply.
Note ...
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Why does writing to the console a process's STDIN is attached to doesn't send input to the application itself?
You're thinking about the standard file descriptors the wrong way.
STDIN points to an input device. If you obtain the STDIN belonging to another process, you could use it to steal that process's ...
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Dell iDRAC6 virtual console viewer from GNU/Linux command line
There are 2 console available:
VGA via iDRAC VNC
Serial via IPMI Serial Over Lan
VGA
Install JDK
Linux workstation: download avctVMLinux64.jar and avctKVMIOLinux64.jar. Create a lib folder, then ...
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How to check if I'm in screen session?
Better answer (in my opinion), inspired by this, just type the following:
pstree -s $$
If you get something like this:
systemd───sshd───sshd───bash───screen───screen───bash───pstree
… then you are ...
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How do I copy/paste to a VM console window in the VMware ESXi HTML interface?
The HTML console is not meant for getting any real work done, it is more suited for checking if a VM has stalled, or is stuck in some reboot loop.
For functionality like copy and paste to work, you ...
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Is there a way in the GCP console to see who started a Compute Engine VM that has been running for 1.5 years?
You could try with Logs Explorer.
According to the official documentation, These are the logs retention periods
Log type
Default retention period
Custom retention
Admin Activity audit logs
400 days
...
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Dell iDRAC6 virtual console viewer from GNU/Linux command line
This is by far the easiest way: https://github.com/DomiStyle/docker-idrac6
A web based docker container that gives you full functionality!
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Is it possible to connect a laptop to a Linux desktop - to function as the desktop console?
Yes, there are products that serve to enable a laptop as a portable KVM device. They are commonly used for lightweight/portable crash carts. Start here: https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+crash+cart+...
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Need a replacement for "Snoopy"
The audit system is perfectly capable of logging all users' commands without pam_tty_audit, which only logs terminal keystrokes. You should set up auditing to do this instead of pam_tty_audit. By ...
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How do I copy/paste to a VM console window in the VMware ESXi HTML interface?
If you're running a UNIX-based OS or a derivative(e.g. Linux), you can get xdotool to do it for you like so:
sleep 5; xdotool type --window 90177794 'password'; xdotool key Return
use 'xdotool search'...
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ESXi - serial console as default console
Maybe this will work? Still not sure why you want to follow this path, but the option is available.
Redirect the Direct Console to a Serial Port Using the vSphere Client
When you use the ...
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Scheduled job not running to completion; event logged with return code 3762504530
I've had this issue recently several times when I tried to execute a .exe file via task scheduler.
Turned out under the Action section in the task properties I have to set the Start in (optional): to ...
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Switch between virtual consoles on virtual machine?
In VMware 7 Web console, I have used [Alt+Right Arrow] and [Alt+Left Arrow] to switch between different virtual consoles of a guest VM.
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How to clear notifications in the Google Cloud Platform console?
There is now a "CLEAR" button under Filters in the Activity tab (under Home -> ACTIVITY -> FILTER).
That seemed to work for me to remove the notification count from the bell icon in the top bar. The ...
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Can you send console commands to a node-based systemd service?
Because it is now running as a systemd service, I don't think you can connect it to a console directly. You need some form of interprocess communication, such as:
TCP Socket server
UNIX socket
FIFO (...
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Why does writing to the console a process's STDIN is attached to doesn't send input to the application itself?
First of all, based on the observed behavior I assume that this is about Linux. Under a different OS, I expect that things may turn out differently (for better or worse).
I believe the most ...
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What are the differenced between SuperMicro console terminal types ANSI, VT100 and VT-UTF8
VT100 incorporates VT52 escape sequences with colour extensions. ANSI refers to the use of ANSI escape codes to do the same thing, while VT-UTF8 is a Microsoft specification - which, as you guessed, ...
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A better tool for console-to-console communication on Linux?
I think wall, is the utility you might want to use. It broadcasts the message to all the users on the system, that are currently logged in.
I would use the following statement instead to notify ...
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How to send the keys Alt+F9 to Microsoft Azure Serial Console for Linux?
You don't, because Alt+F9 is a keypress that only makes sense on the actual Linux framebuffer console. It switches to virtual terminal 9 on the real console. While it's possible to view the virtual ...
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Why is my Linux console polluted with messages?
Not sure what the default is on Rocky Linux, but there is a kernel configuration value kernel.printk that controls the level of alerts sent to the system console. You will want to adjust this. So ...
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Domino Console port 2050 certificate expired. Can it be renewed?
This is a well know issue and unfortunately only can be solved to update the server to 9.0.1FP6 or newer as you can read in this knowledgebase- article at hcl:
Resolution
Since the certificate issued ...
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Dell iDRAC6 virtual console viewer from GNU/Linux command line
This is more of an addendum to exeral's chosen answer.
Not only did I run into Java Web Start issues, but also hit (deprecated) disabled ciphers/algorithms.
I chose to use an aging GNU/Linux virtual ...
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how to stream a console to the network
This will create a video of TTY1 and pipe it to ffplay (you could do something else with it)
#!/bin/bash
(while sleep 1
do
screendump 1 | anytopnm | pnmtojpeg
done) | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -r 1 -...
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how to stream a console to the network
Honestly, I think you're working too hard. Try looking at something like tmux which can do the console multiplexing, as well as allowing multiple connections to the console it creates. You can also ...
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Accomplishing Ctrl-z + bg in one step?
Short answer, no, but check https://superuser.com/questions/378018/how-can-i-do-ctrl-z-and-bg-in-one-keypress-to-make-process-continue-in-backgroun for a hacky solution to implement a faster ...
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Is it possible to connect a laptop to a Linux desktop - to function as the desktop console?
Being desktops I assume Xorg is running on those machines.
In that case you can simply use VNC.
Install tigervnc-server on all your servers, and tigervnc on your client and set them up with local ...
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virt-manager vm console requires password
Thanks Michael Hampton for pointing in the right direction.
I unchecked the following box to view the console.
Remove Console password
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A better tool for console-to-console communication on Linux?
I've used an XMPP server (eg: jabber, openfire) for this in the past and setup a group chat. This keeps interruptions out of the console/vi sessions/etc.. Logins are broadcast to the chat room with ...
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console PHP produces opcode output
Somewhere in your PHP configuration, you have set opcache.opt_debug_level to a nonzero value. Remove this setting from your php.ini or the included ini file where it is set, or set it back to its ...
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