Console¶

You are able to open the console of your instances by using the instance console in either the cloud management portal or OpenStack Horizon.

This is useful if you need to debug or troubleshoot your instance if it’s unreachable.

Note

Since you cannot use SSH-keys to login to a console but need to have a password, if you have not set a password (but trusted in the keys from provisioning), you will have to reset the root or administrator password.

How to do this will vary by operating system but for the majority of Linux distributions, booting into single user mode will enable a password-less login which you can use to reset the password for the root user.

Cloud management portal console¶

Press Compute and then Instances in the sidebar menu.
Press the instance you want to view console output for.
Press the console icon (looks like < >) in the top right.
A new window will appear showing the console. If the image is blank, this might be because the screen is in power save mode (operating system setting). Press the mouse cursor on the screen and press any key to wake it up.

OpenStack Horizon console¶

Under Project, click Compute and then Instances in the sidebar menu.
In the dropdown menu to the far right of the line corresponding to the instance you want to view console for, press Console.
A new window will appear showing the console. If the image is blank, this might be because the screen is in power save mode (operating system setting). Press the mouse cursor on the screen and press any key to wake it up.