Accessing your cluster by using the console

You can access your console from a supported web browser.

Procedure

Get the URL to access the Administration panel.

The username and password are defined in the config.yaml file.
- Administration panel without the zen-cpp-operator extension installed
You can get the IBM Cloud Pak console route for accessing the Administration panel by running the following command:
```
oc get route -n ibm-common-services cp-console -o jsonpath='{.spec.host}' && echo
```
The response is your <https://<cluster_address>. <cluster_address> is the IBM Cloud Pak console route.

Following is a sample output:
```
cp-console.apps.mycluster.mydomain.com
```
Based on the example output, your console URL would be https://cp-console.apps.mycluster.mydomain.com.
- Administration panel with the zen-cpp-operator extension installed
You can get the Cloud Pak Platform route for accessing the common landing page by running the following command:
```
oc get route -n ibm-common-services cpd -o jsonpath='{.spec.host}' && echo
```
The response is your <https://<cluster_address>. <cluster_address> is the Cloud Pak Platform route.

Following is a sample output:
```
cpd.apps.mycluster.mydomain.com
```
To access the landing page, go to the following URL: <https://<cpd_address>/zen/#/homepage

Based on the example output, your Cloud Pak Platform URL would be https://cpd.apps.mycluster.mydomain.com/zen/#/homepage.
Access your cluster from a web browser. For a list of supported browsers, see Supported browsers.
Log in to the console. You might have different authentication types available for you to select from to authenticate your user credentials.

The default username to access the console is admin.

You can get the password for the admin username by running the following command:
```
 oc -n ibm-common-services get secret platform-auth-idp-credentials -o jsonpath='{.data.admin_password}' | base64 -d && echo
```
Following is a sample output:
```
EwK9dj9fwPZHyHTyu9TyIgh9klZSzVsA
```
Based on the example output, you would use EwK9dj9fwPZHyHTyu9TyIgh9klZSzVsA as the password.

You can change the default password at any time. For more information, see Changing the administrator password.

Note: Any user with access to the ibm-common-services namespace can retrieve this password since it’s stored in a secret in the ibm-common-services namespace. To minimize password exposure, allow limited users to access the ibm-common-services namespace.