Emergency Management Services

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Emergency Management Services (EMS) provides an RS-232 accessable serial console interface to the Microsoft Windows XP bootloader menu.

During system installation of Windows 2003 Server it is enabled per default in case BIOS serial console redirection is supported and enabled beforehand. Otherwise, and in "desktop" versions of MS-Windows XP, it is enabled with a command such as the following:

bootcfg /ems on /port com1 /baud 9600 /id 1

On server versions of Windows XP (e.g. 2003 Server) this also starts a system console named Special Administration Console (SAC) during operating system runtime providing headless server opperation.

For similar functionality on previos versions of MS-Windows one can install a getty program, named agetty, ported over from Unix/Linux (on which headless opperation and serial-console access, are standard features).

See Also

• System console
• Console server
• Null modem
• NTLDR
• OOBI
• GNU GRUB

References

• IBM: Redbooks Technote [Enabling Serial Over LAN for a Remote Windows Text Console using OSA SMBridge]
• Egan Ford: [xCAT Windows NT/2000/XP HOWTO] March 2005

External Links

• Dell: System Recovery [Using Windows Server 2003 on Dell PowerEdge Servers]
• [Administering Windows Server 2003 Remotely]

 

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