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title: Opening the PingFederate administrative console
description: The PingFederate administrative console provides a wizard-like interface in which you configure your federation use cases.
component: pingfederate
version: 12.3
page_id: pingfederate:getting_started_with_pingfederate:pf_open_pf_admin_console
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/13.1/getting_started_with_pingfederate/pf_open_pf_admin_console.html
llms_txt: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/llms.txt
docs_for_agents: https://developer.pingidentity.com/build-with-ai/docs-for-agents.md
revdate: July 5, 2022
superseded_by: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/13.1/getting_started_with_pingfederate/pf_open_pf_admin_console.html
section_ids:
  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
---

# Opening the PingFederate administrative console

The PingFederate administrative console provides a wizard-like interface in which you configure your federation use cases.

## About this task

To open the administrative console:

## Steps

1. Start PingFederate. See [Starting and stopping PingFederate](pf_start_stop_pf.html).

   In a clustered PingFederate environment, start PingFederate on the console node.

2. Start a web browser.

3. Go to https\://*\<pf_host>*:9999/.

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   |   | For PingFederate 10.1 and earlier, the administrative console is accessed at https\://*\<pf_host>*:9999/pingfederate/app.*\<pf_host>* is the network address of your PingFederate server. It can be an IP address, a host name, or a fully qualified domain name. It must be reachable from your computer.`9999` is the default value of the `pf.admin.https.port` property in the `run.properties` file. |