Newbie to freeswitch so I apologize if it sounds basic.

I was wondering if there was any way to access freeswitch console from fs_cli?
I know fs_cli is a debug console for FS but is there any way I can access the original freeswitch console?

I hope I make sense. Like I start freeswitch in background. Then I access it through fs_cli. Can I access the background-ed FS?

Also if I can't, can I get the same loglevel in fs_cli as in FS?