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# Phase 5: Complete the GCP onboarding wizard in Cortex

### 5.1 Enter the GCP scope details and service accounts in Cortex

After you have completed phases 2-4 to create the required GCP resources, you return to the GCP onboarding wizard in Cortex. To connect your GCP environment to Cortex, you must provide your GCP scope details and service accounts. You can complete this using one of the two methods below:

* Automated upload: Quickly populate all required fields by dragging and dropping your JSON identifiers file directly into the wizard.
* Manual configuration: Manually input your GCP IDs and your service account emails into the corresponding text fields.

#### 5.1.2 Automated upload

To use the automated upload option, you must first populate the fields in the "manual\_details" section of the identifiers JSON file with the values from your GCP environment.

1. Locate the `gcp-identifiers-<date>.json` file that you downloaded in step 1.2.
2. Open the file in a local text editor and populate the fields in the "manual\_details" section.
3. Drag and drop the file directly into the GCP onboarding wizard.
4. Verify that the fields in the GCP scope details and Service accounts sections are populated.

#### 5.1.3 Manual configuration

If you have not populated your JSON identifiers file, or prefer to enter details manually, follow these steps:

1. In the GCP onboarding wizard, in GCP scope details, enter the relevant GCP IDs.
2. In Service accounts, enter the required details.

### 5.2 Complete onboarding

In the GCP onboarding wizard, click Save. The new GCP cloud instance is created and is connected to GCP. You can view the GCP cloud instance status in Data Sources & Integrations. The initial discovery scan is started. When the scan is complete, you can view your cloud assets in Asset Inventory.

#### 5.2.1 Troubleshooting

If an error is displayed after clicking Save, you can fix the entries in the GCP onboarding wizard and try saving again.


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