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How to Use the Serial Console


What Is a Serial Console?


A serial console connection allows you to monitor the boot up, restart and shutdown processes of your server, thus the serial console makes entrance to the server possible, even if this is no longer attainable over the net. A text output given by the Kernel describes the processes that the server is attending too when going through any of the phases mentioned above. This is especially useful for system administers as they can now observe the actions taken by the server.




You would need to log into the serial console via a SSH Client, such as PuTTY http://www.putty.nl/download.html to make use of the serial console connection.

Serial Console User Information



To obtain the information needed to log into the serial console you need to follow the steps outlined below:

1. Log into the 1and1 admin control panel http://admin.1and1.co.uk and then click on the account in question.
2. Click on the Server Administration link and you will be presented with the following

3. Clicking the 'Server Data' link you will be shown the technical data of your server such as IP Address, Server Name and Server Password. The various user names and passwords to log into the server, via SSH, Plesk are also shown here. You would need to click on the option 'Serial Console' to view the serial console log in details.


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