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title: "Joining NIOS Virtual Appliances to the Grid"
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> Macro (include)

# Accessing the NIOS CLI Using the Serial Console

To access the NIOS CLI, <span style="color: #000000">create a console connection to the CLI as follows</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">Log in to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">Open </span><span style="color: #000000">the navigation menu and click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Compute </span>**<span style="color: #000000">-></span>**<span style="color: #000000"> Instances</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">Open the NIOS instance that you created.</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">On the </span>*<span style="color: #000000">Instance Details</span>*<span style="color: #000000"> page, under </span>*<span style="color: #000000">Resources</span>*<span style="color: #000000">, click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Console Connections</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
5. <span style="color: #000000">In the right-hand panel, click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Create Local Connection</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
6. <span style="color: #000000">In the </span>*<span style="color: #000000">Create Console Connection</span>*<span style="color: #000000"> dialog box, select or copy the public key of the machine for which NIOS access is needed.</span>
7. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Create Console Connection</span>**<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
8. <span style="color: #000000">On the console connection that you created, click the Actions icon (three dots), and then click </span>**<span style="color: #000000">Copy Serial Console Connection for Linux/Mac</span>**<span style="color: #000000"> to copy the serial console.</span>
9. From the **Action** menu, click **Connect**.