• The
Idle Connection Timeout specifies how long a user can be inactive before a remote console session ends
automatically. This value does not affect remote console sessions when a virtual media device is connected.
• When the mouse is positioned over the remote console window, the console captures all keystrokes, regardless of
whether the console window has focus.
• You can enable and disable the
Remote Console feature on the Access Settings page.
Viewing remote console access settings
Procedure
1. Click Remote Console & Media in the navigation tree.
The
Launch tab displays the remote console access settings in the General Information section.
2. (Optional) To navigate to the Access Settings page, where you can configure these settings, click the Remote
Console Status link or the Remote Console Port link.
Remote console access setting details
Remote Console Status
The current remote console access setting (enabled or disabled).
When the remote console is disabled:
• You cannot access the graphical remote console or the text-based remote console.
• The configured remote console port is not detected in a security audit that uses a port scanner to scan for
security vulnerabilities.
To view this setting on the
Access Settings page, click the Remote Console Status link.
Remote Console Port
The configured remote console port. The default value is 17990.
To view this setting on the
Access Settings page, click the Remote Console Port link.
Starting the integrated remote console
Starting the HTML5 IRC
Use this procedure to access the remote console in a supported browser.
Prerequisites
• Remote Console privilege
• A license that supports this feature is installed. For information about the available license types and the features they
support, see the licensing documentation at the following website:
https://www.hpe.com/support/ilo-docs.
• The
Remote Console feature is enabled on the Access Settings page.
• For Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge users only: You connected to the iLO web interface by using a
hostname or an IPv4 address.
The HTML5 IRC is not supported with Microsoft Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge over an IPv6 connection. The
Microsoft WebSocket implementation requires a nonstandard IPv6 literal address.
Using HPE iLO 5
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