The Control Centre
The HEAT Control Centre is the operator and administrator portal for a deployed HEAT environment. It is where you watch the cluster, manage the entities that training depends on, and troubleshoot sessions.
The current Control Centre is served at /admin. You sign in at /login with a HEAT Auth account and land on the Monitoring overview at /admin/monitoring.
An older console is still served at /main, the original Cluster Manager. It is deprecated and kept only for the few screens the new console has not yet replaced. Prefer /admin for all operator work. See The legacy console for what remains there and why.
The Control Centre is not the HEAT dashboard. The dashboard is where instructors and trainees read results. The Control Centre is where administrators keep the environment that produces them running.
The navigation
The left sidebar groups the console into sections. Each row below is a page in this guide.
| Group | Pages |
|---|---|
| Monitoring | Overview, Platform Advisor, Cluster, Host Agents, Tasks, Logs, Live Ingestion |
| Data | Projects, Sessions, Session Exports, Dimensions |
| Workloads | Templates, Runners |
| Developer Tools | Offline Tokens, Shell, Agent MCP |
| Support | In-app Documentation and an API Reference, both served offline with the environment |
| Operations | Patches, Service Restarts, Scratch Files |
| Platform | Identity, Configuration, Data Sources, Features, Version Details |
The Support group holds the same handbook you are reading, bundled into the environment, and a browser for the platform’s API specification. Both work with no internet connection.
Who can open it
The Control Centre is gated by role. Only an Administrator or a Developer account can open /admin. Any other account is shown an access notice and sent back to the dashboard.
| Role | Control Centre access |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Every section |
| Developer | Every section in the sidebar. A few controls are Administrator only, such as viewing a data source connection string and issuing offline tokens |
| Instructor | None. Reads results in the dashboard |
| Trainee | None. Reads their own results in the dashboard |
The sidebar footer shows the signed-in operator and a banner naming the environment type and mode, for example On-Premises Environment, PRODUCTION.
What the Control Centre is not
The Control Centre is not an authoring environment. Session templates, node templates, runners and dashboard layouts are built by developers, then registered here. See Session templates for where that work starts.
It is not the identity service. HEAT Auth holds accounts and issues tokens. The Control Centre gives you screens to manage them.
It does not show you the contents of session data. The Sessions pages tell you that outputs exist, where they are stored and whether processing succeeded. Reading the results is the dashboard’s job.