Serial access to UCS when running as VM

[Luckyh]

As the original articel is outdated

How to configure grub serial access (serial console)

For the average user a serial console has no advantage compared to a graphical console offered by a directly attached keyboard and screen. But there are some scenarios where serial consoles are useful: Systems administration of remote computers via remote management (IPMI) Console redirection to non-standard settings Recording boot console messages Handicapped (blind) administrators who can not do anything with a graphical output Disable graphical GRUB output (text output only) Note “Hardwar…

It might help others how to configure Serial access to your server

In my case my UCS-servers are often running as a VM in some cases as a FreeBSD bhyve vm in other inside proxmox.
the articel from 2017 is not valid anymore as the system is now using systemd (no inittab anymore)

in order to achive a serial console simply use

systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0
systemctl start serial-getty@ttyS0

Regards Lucky

[lutz.willek]

Thank you very much Luckyh!

I am the author, and the article is the result of Bug 41211 and related to the (german) thread UCS für Blinde: grub serielle Konsole konfigurieren, back in 2016.

Unfortunately, I can’t edit this kb article, it is not allowed anymore. Maybe someone from Univention support could update? (or allow to edit this article: It would be a pleasure for me to contribute and to keep the article up to date)