boundary/website/content/docs/admin-console/getting-started.mdx

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page_title: Getting Started - UI
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  Boundary admin console getting started
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# Getting Started with the Admin Console

## Logging In

If you don't already have a deployment of Boundary, you can start one locally in dev mode:

```bash
$ boundary dev -password=foofoofoo -login-name=foo
```

Navigate to the login page in a browser, and enter your credentials

![](/img/ui_login.png)

## View Users & Add a User

Click on the default organization, and then navigate to the side-bar `users` and click the `+` sign

![](/img/ui_users.png)

![](/img/ui_users_2.png)

## View a Session

Start a TCP session to the default target

```bash
$ boundary connect -target-id ttcp_1234567890

Proxy listening information:
  Address:             127.0.0.1
  Connection Limit:    1
  Expiration:          Sat, 26 Sep 2020 20:28:20 PDT
  Port:                50188
  Protocol:            tcp
  Session ID:          s_aSEjQBflI8
```

Navigate to `projects` -> `sessions`

![](/img/ui_sessions.png)

You can see multiple sessions, the last one is the latest one. In this view we can see two others
that are pending cancellation.