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title: "Accessing the Appliance"
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The management system is the computer from which you configure and monitor the Infoblox appliance. You access the appliance from the management system remotely across an Ethernet network or directly through a serial cable. After completing the steps in *[Cabling the Appliance to a Network](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/te1506/pages/314802399)** and **[Connecting to the Appliance](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/te1506/pages/314214566)*, you can open an HTTPS connection to the appliance and access the Infoblox Grid Manager using a supported Web browser. You must ensure JavaScript is enabled on your web browser for the Grid Manager web UI to function properly. 

You can also access with CLI though a SSHv2 client. However, you must first enable SSH via the Web UI or a via a console connection over a serial cable. Alternatively, you can access the CLI by connecting a serial cable directly from the console port of a management system to the console port on the appliance, and then using a terminal emulation program.

For information about the hardware and software requirements of the management system, see the *NIOS Release Notes* on the Infoblox Support Portal.