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Additional Features and Applications
The console environment provided by the serial port is called Special Administration
Console (SAC). In the SAC command line, each time we enter the “cmd” command we
create a channel. A channel is the “Command Prompt” environment, where you can
enter the Command Prompt commands (dir, cd, edit, del, copy, etc). We can switch back
and forth between channel(s) and SAC by pressing Esc Tab keys. We can create up to 9
channels, i.e., up to 9 Command Prompt sessions. Whenever we switch channels, the
<channel-switch> tag is sent. The following elements are included in the <channel-
switch> tag:
Element Description
<application-type> Is a hexadecimal GUID signifying the application or tool that is
running on the Windows Server platform and communicating via
this active channel. It is to be used to discern the different
interaction modes. During the Windows GUI-mode Setup phase,
the following GUIDs identify the specific types of data being
emitted:
1) Debug Log (5ED3BAC7-A2F9-4E45-9875-B259EA3F291F)
2) Error Log (773D2759-19B8-4D6E-8045-26BF38402252)
3) Action Log (D37C67BA-89E7-44BA-AE5A-112C6806B0DD)
During nominal Windows Server operations, the following GUIDs
can be expected:
1) SAC (63D02270-8AA4-11D5-BCCF-806D6172696F)
2) CMD (63D02271-8AA4-11D5-BCCF-00B0D014A2D0)
The above are constant GUIDs and should not be confused with
those provided via the <guid> tag below.
<description> Is the user-friendly name of the active channel. For the GUI-Mode
Setup tool they are:
Debug Log (Setup tracing log)
Error Log (Setup errors log)
Action Log (Setup actions log)
For the Windows Server, they are:
SAC (Special Administration Console)
CMD (Command Prompt)
Table 9.2: Elements in the <channel-switch> tag