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# Manage the platform

The Administration section is accessible exclusively to users with the Platform Manager role.

It centralizes platform management: user and group management, project supervision, cluster configuration, data access permission management, and security settings (session policy, password, identity federation).

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## Access and prerequisites

To access the administration panel, you must:

* have an account **Platform Manager**,
* and click on **Administration** in the sidebar.

From this page, you can:

* view the overall statistics of the environment (datasets, datasources, projects, active users, etc.)
* view the most used datasets and datasources,
* quickly access the add modules (user, project, cluster, group) via the action icons at the top right
* configure the platform security settings (session policy, password policy, identity federation)

## Dashboard overview

Administration is organized into different sections:

* **Monitoring** – viewing overall statistics of the environment (datasets, datasources, projects, active users, etc.), monitoring platform resources, and tracking AI token consumption.
* **Users and groups** – management of roles, statuses, and memberships.
* **Projects** – creation, member assignment, deletion, and supervision.
* [**Permissions**](/docs/documentation-fr-en/data-governance/permissions-dacces-aux-donnees.md#approuver-ou-refuser-une-demande) – management of access permissions for datasets and datasources
* [**Clusters**](/docs/documentation-fr-en/administration/gerer-les-clusters.md) – definition and adjustment of Spark and Python runtime environments.
* **Security configuration** – management of session policies, password policies, and identity federation.
* **DevSpaces** – supervision and management of personal development environments.

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## Best practices

* Centralize creations (projects, clusters, users) through Platform Managers to ensure resource consistency.
* Avoid inactive accounts: disable temporarily rather than delete.
* Adjust clusters by environment (test / prod) rather than multiplying one-off creations.