There is nothing wrong with the openstack side according to your context, but you need to double check the BMC configuration and kernel parameters before you can make it work in the dashboard or shellinabox web service. You should have something like "console=ttyS0,115200n8" in the kernel parameters, and the parameters should match what's configured in the BIOS.

I'd suggest you to start diagnosing with ipmitool because it's the underlying tool used by ironic, try ipmitool <address, port arguments> sol activate, if you can't do anything there, you definity can't do anything from socat/shellinabox.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 4:17 PM Ankele zhang <ankelezhang@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello~ Wang

Thanks for your email very much, you show me hope.
There are some problems that need your help.

My Ironic baremetal node's BIOS has enabled the SOL, and I have configure the baremetal node correctly guided by 'https://docs.openstack.org/rocky' and the result of the command line 'openstack baremetal node console' is ok, but the SOL page is still frozen. After that, I changed my enabled_console_interfaces from ipmitool-shellinabox to ipmitool-socat, and recreate my baremetal node and recreate my nova server, everything is the same as before, I got  a frozen SOL page in dashboard.

I don't know why the docs of openstack.org is incomplete, or socat or shellinabox. Maybe you can give me some advice.
Looking forward to your reply again!

                                                                                                             Ankele

Kaifeng Wang <kaifeng.w@gmail.com> 于2020年11月13日周五 上午12:04写道：
Hi,

"SOL Session operational" is a BMC prompt, actually you have successfully connected to it, before you can interact with the terminal, the Serial Redirection (or something called that) needs to be enabled in the BIOS, also make sure you have matching baud rate set to the bootloader for the tty.

P.S. SOL does not work for Windows systems.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:05 PM Ankele zhang <ankelezhang@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello~

    I have a OpenStack platform( Rocky )  on CentOS7.6, and I installed Ironic components on it. I can manage bare metal node with Ironic and I plan to use shellinabox to manage the bare metal node remotely.
    I had config conductor ironic.conf:
        [DEFAULT]
        ...
        enabled_console_interfaces = ipmitool-shellinabox,no-console
    I had config shellinabox:
        USER=shellinabox
        GROUP=shellinabox
        CERTDIR=/var/lib/shellinabox
        PORT=4200
        OPTS="--disable-ssl-menu -s /:LOGIN"
    My 'openstack baremetal node console show BM01':
    console_enabled: True and console_info.url: http://192.168.3.84:8023
image.png
     Now, I can access https://192.168.3.84:4200 is OK, and I can log in and manage it.
     But, when I access http://192.168.3.84:8023:
image.png
can not type anything into it.

Look forward to hearing from you!

                                                                                                              Ankele