All Oracle servers and CMMs arrive with a physical serial port on the chassis that makes it easy to establish a secure local management connection to Oracle ILOM. This type of management connection is particularly useful when a local console is the only way to access and diagnose system failures; or, when you need an alternative method for modifying the Oracle ILOM preconfigured network properties prior to establishing a LAN connection.
For further information about configuring a local serial management connection to Oracle ILOM, see the following procedure.