# Interactive Console

When you select the Console icon on the control panel (or the “+” tab) Fabric Manager GUI displays a new console screen where you must enter a username, password, host, and port (SSH uses port 22 by default). After logging in, the Interactive Console window changes.

The Interactive Console provides:

- An Integrated Management Environment to allow a power user to manage a subnet via consoles within the Fabric Manager GUI.

- A Dynamic Online Help for CLI tools. It may be difficult for users to remember the arguments for a CLI tool. This special console monitors your actions and is able to automatically identify and show the corresponding help for the command as you are typing.

  For example, when you type `opare`, the console analyses the input, selects the `opareport` command, and then displays the help content for this command with arguments and their meanings. If you continue to type `opareport -o`, the panel scrolls to the available output types for argument `-o`.

The Interactive Console also manages consoles by tabs and each command can be issued either in the same console or a new console. Issuing commands in a new console enables you to compare results from similar commands by switching tabs.

To close a console, click the icon on the tab. To log into a console, click the + icon (+).