Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
A console connection has to physically be made using a console cable to the device using either a special ethernet or serial cable. See if you can do a virtual console connection over ssh or telnet.
Full answer by EhevuTov: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/463423 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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