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title: "Virtual Serial Port"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/DeploymentGuidevNIOSforGCP/736396388/Virtual%20Serial%20Port"
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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.

![image](media://838ee0c2-0cea-4b82-90d9-9fabe328598d)

3. Click **EDIT**.

![image](media://fcf8c466-a008-4353-a2d9-82a37777c155)

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

![image](media://2dc0f528-27c4-44b7-97c9-d0698e50077c)

5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click **Save**.

![image](media://737a9ea3-d5ac-47c7-aaeb-6407b77e4f00)


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

![image](media://5d9b9d10-2ca3-40af-9ce5-9dce0721be27)

7. 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.

![image](media://ec665308-7667-400c-8e12-7910ca4fb84e)

8. Login using the default credentials (admin/infoblox).
9. Run the command **show network** to view the local network configuration.

![image](media://9922207d-317c-4a0d-8501-75ade64dd8fe)

10. Run the command **show license** to review any installed licenses.

![image](media://34d9f368-3385-410f-a093-cab780d025d4)

11. 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.*

![image](media://00d4a4d5-a191-4328-9f1b-453733a86bfd)

12. For additional information on using the NIOS CLI, refer to <u>[https://docs.infoblox.com](https://docs.infoblox.com)</u>.
13. When you are done using the serial console, use the command **exit**, and then close the browser tab.