navsection: userguide
title: "Checking your environment"
...
+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
First, log into an Arvados VM instance (instructions for "Webshell":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/vm-login-with-webshell.html or "Unix":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-unix.html#login or "Windows":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-windows.html#login) or install the Arvados "Command line SDK":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/cli/install.html and "Python SDK":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/python/sdk-python.html on your workstation.