Get Serial Port Output

Returns the last 1 MB of serial port output from the specified instance

5 variables
5 variables

Returns the last 1 MB of serial port output from the specified instance

Authorization

To use this building block you will have to grant access to at least one of the following scopes:

  • View and manage your data across Google Cloud Platform services
  • View and manage your Google Compute Engine resources
  • View your Google Compute Engine resources

Input

This building block consumes 5 input parameters

  = Parameter name
  = Format

project STRING Required

Project ID for this request

zone STRING Required

The name of the zone for this request

instance STRING Required

Name of the instance scoping this request

port INTEGER

Specifies which COM or serial port to retrieve data from

start INTEGER

Returns output starting from a specific byte position. Use this to page through output when the output is too large to return in a single request. For the initial request, leave this field unspecified. For subsequent calls, this field should be set to the next value returned in the previous call

Output

This building block provides 5 output parameters

  = Parameter name
  = Format

contents STRING

[Output Only] The contents of the console output

kind STRING

[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#serialPortOutput for serial port output

next INTEGER

[Output Only] The position of the next byte of content from the serial console output. Use this value in the next request as the start parameter

selfLink STRING

[Output Only] Server-defined URL for this resource

start INTEGER

The starting byte position of the output that was returned. This should match the start parameter sent with the request. If the serial console output exceeds the size of the buffer, older output will be overwritten by newer content and the start values will be mismatched