Consoles¶

Interactive telnet consoles are opened by the IDE through the agent HTTPS telnet proxy. Do not open telnet:// or raw EVE console ports from the operator laptop.

From the sidebar¶

Per-node Console appears when the node state allows it. Open Lab is the GUI topology, not a serial console.

Node identity in the project is the IaC key (n_7), not the display name.

Status vs inspect¶

• Status — runtime summary (running / stopped / …).
• Inspect — observation snapshot of the live lab. It is not desired state. LOAD labs use inspect as the cached observation; pass refresh only if the lab changed.

Start/stop/wipe drop the client cache; the agent keeps the EVE session alive. You do not need to Reload Window.

AI consoles¶

The model may run read-only diagnostic commands through MCP console exec. That is operational state. It is not a second configuration-management path. Prefer editing topology.yml / configs/ for desired state.

See AI / MCP.