PowerVS: Grabbing a VM Instance Console

1. Create the API Key at https://cloud.ibm.com/iam/apikeys

2. On the terminal, export the IBMCLOUD_API_KEY.

$  export IBMCLOUD_API_KEY=...REDACTED...      

3. Login to the IBM Cloud using the commandline tool https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cli

$ ibmcloud login --apikey "${IBMCLOUD_API_KEY}" -r ca-tor
API endpoint: https://cloud.ibm.com
Authenticating...
OK

Targeted account Demo <-> 1012

Targeted region ca-tor

Users of 'ibmcloud login --vpc-cri' need to use this API to login until July 6, 2022: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/vpc-metadata#create-iam-token
                      
API endpoint:      https://cloud.ibm.com   
Region:            ca-tor   
User:              myuser@us.ibm.com   
Account:           Demo <-> 1012   
Resource group:    No resource group targeted, use 'ibmcloud target -g RESOURCE_GROUP'   
CF API endpoint:      
Org:                  
Space:  

1. List your PowerVS services

$ ibmcloud pi sl
Listing services under account Demo as user myuser@us.ibm.com...
ID                                                                                                                   Name   
crn:v1:bluemix:public:power-iaas:mon01:a/999999c1f1c29460e8c2e4bb8888888:ADE123-8232-4a75-a9d4-0e1248fa30c6::     demo-service   

4. Target your PowerVS instance

$ ibmcloud pi st crn:v1:bluemix:public:power-iaas:mon01:a/999999c1f1c29460e8c2e4bb8888888:ADE123-8232-4a75-a9d4-0e1248fa30c6::    

5. List the PowerVS Services’ VMs

$ ibmcloud pi ins                                                  
Listing instances under account Demo as user myuser@us.ibm.com...
ID                                     Name                                   Path   
12345-ae8f-494b-89f3-5678   control-plane-x       /pcloud/v1/cloud-instances/abc-def-ghi-jkl/pvm-instances/12345-ae8f-494b-89f3-5678   

6. Create a Console for the VM instance you want to look at:

$ ibmcloud pi ingc control-plane-x
Getting console for instance control-plane-x under account Demo as user myuser@us.ibm.com...
                 
Name          control-plane-x   
Console URL   https://mon01-console.power-iaas.cloud.ibm.com/console/index.html?path=%3Ftoken%3not-real  

7. Click on the Console URL, and view in your browser. it can be very helpful.