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For physical console access, the virtual machine must be configured to attach the virtual serial port to a physical serial port on the host system. This configuration task is performed using the Charon-SSP Manager as shown in Serial Line Configuration. Charon-SSP AWS cannot have hardware physical ports, so these ports must be emulated over a network connection.
Additional serial port configuration options, such as speed, parity, and stop-bits must be configured using the ttya‑mode variable in the OpenBoot guest environment. For additional information regarding the configuration of the ttya-mode variable, see the OpenBoot Command ReferenceConsole in the appendix.
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Built-in Serial Console of the Charon Manager
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If the access to the Charon-SSP host system is via an SSH tunnel, no additional ports need to be opened in any intermediate firewall or AWS security groups. Otherwise, make sure the ports selected for the console connection are not blocked by such firewalls or security groups.
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The example below shows the serial console configuration of a Charon-SSP/4U and a Charon-SSP/4V system.
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Only one connection to the console is possible at one time. If the Charon Manager is connected via the integrated SSH tunnel and you try to open a second connection to the console (e.g., via a remote terminal emulation program), Charon Manager will terminate the second connection and re-establish the built-in console connection. If the Charon Manager is not running or not connected via the integrated SSH tunnel, a console connection can be established via a remote terminal program and the built-in console tab will be disconnected.
If a second connection via Charon Manager is made to the same system, the current Charon-Manager connection is terminated.
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Console Access via the Emulated Graphics Device
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To enable the emulated graphical display graphics device as the console if this is enabled in the graphics configuration. This requires , set the Console configuration option to be set to on when configuring the graphics device ON:
If this Unless the connection is not made across a VPN connection, the ports configured in the window shown above must be permitted in by any intermediate firewall and/or AWS security group.
When booting for the first time after adding the configuration, use the reconfiguration boot option (command
boot <device> -r
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to configure the graphics device correctly in the Solaris guest system.
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After starting the emulated system, the graphics devices opens:
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Please note:
The graphical performance depends on many parameters, for example, the performance of the host system, the emulated system, and the network.
One important requirement is that the round-trip time of the network connection between display device and emulated Solaris system running on the AWS instance should be less or equal to 20ms.
For every use case, a test is required to evaluate the suitability for the specific customer environment.
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