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Virtual Serial Port

Owned by Shirly Tsang
Jul 12, 2024
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Follow the steps in this section to use the virtual serial port for your vNIOS for GCP instance.

  1. In the GCP Console Navigation menu, expand Compute Engine. Select VM Instances.

  2. Click on your new vNIOS instance.

  1. Click EDIT.

  1. Click the checkbox to Enable connecting to serial ports under Remote access.

  1. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

 

  1. Back at the top of the VM instance details page, click Connect to serial console.

  1. A new browser tab should open. This may take a few moments to connect as the console session is established with your Infoblox vNIOS for GCP appliance.

  1. Login using the default credentials (admin/infoblox).

  2. Run the command show network to view the local network configuration.

  1. Run the command show license to review any installed licenses.

  1. You can use the set temp_license command to install additional temporary licenses if needed. Note: This is not needed if you set the temporary licenses in user-data during VM creation.

  1. For additional information on using the NIOS CLI, refer to https://docs.infoblox.com.

  2. When you are done using the serial console, use the command exit, and then close the browser tab.

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