Explanation
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute service provides console connections that enable you to remotely troubleshoot malfunctioning instances.
There are two types of instance console connections:
- Serial console connections
- VNC console connections
Before you can connect to the serial console or VNC console, you need to create the instance console connection.
After you have created the console connection for the instance, you can then connect to the serial console by using a Secure Shell (SSH) connection. When you are finished with the serial console and have terminated the SSH connection, you should delete the serial console connection. If you do not disconnect from the session, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure terminates the serial console session after 24 hours and you must reauthenticate to connect again If you are not using the default SSH key or ssh-agent, you can modify the serial console connection string to include the identity file flag, -i, to specify the SSH key to use. You must specify this for both the SSH connection and the SSH ProxyCommand, as shown in the following line:
ssh -i /<path>/<ssh_key> -o ProxyCommand='ssh -i /<path>/<ssh_key> -W %h:%p -p 443