Start Itential Platform (First Time)

Updated on 25 Jan 2025

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System Startup

To start Itential Platform for the first time after running the migration script:

Start Itential Platform and set to auto-start on server reboot.
```
systemctl enable --now pronghorn
```

Confirm Itential Platform has started successfully.

$ systemctl status pronghorn

pronghorn.service - Itential Automation Platform Service
  Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/pronghorn.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-01-02 20:37:43 UTC; 4min 29s ago
Main PID: 30774 (Pronghorn core)

 The journalctl -u pronghorn -f command may be run to monitor Itential Platform logs during startup or general usage.

Access the Itential Platform Web UI

Itential Platform may be accessed by browsing to http://<SERVER_HOSTNAME>:3000/login with <SERVER_HOSTNAME> being either the hostname or IP address of the server that Itential Platform is installed on. The default user is admin@pronghorn with password admin.

 To access applications, be sure to give admin@pronghorn user access to all roles from the Itential Platform → Admin Essentials → Authorization interface.

Figure 2: Admin Essentials → Authorization

02_adminEssentialsAuthorization-21.2.png

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