# Accessing Your Cluster

Your [credentials document](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/cloud-storage/getting-started/provisioning#what-you-receive) holds the endpoints and credentials below. Replace the placeholders with the values for your cluster.

## Ceph Dashboard

The Ceph Dashboard is the web UI for monitoring and managing your cluster. Use the URL and login from your credentials document. From the dashboard you:

- View cluster health, capacity, and OSD status
- Manage pools and device classes
- Create and manage object-storage (RGW) users and buckets

## Object storage (S3)

Your cluster exposes an S3-compatible endpoint via Ceph RGW. Point any S3 client at the endpoint URL from your credentials document:

```bash
aws s3 ls --endpoint-url https://<rgw-endpoint>
```

See [Object Storage](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/cloud-storage/reference/object-storage) for clients, keys, and usage.

## Administrative (root) access

ZCS clusters are single-tenant with root-level access, so you administer Ceph directly. For example, check status from an admin host:

```bash
ceph status
ceph osd df tree
```

Your credentials document lists the access method: admin host, SSH, or dashboard.

Root access lets you reconfigure pools, CRUSH rules, and OSDs directly. Changes to data placement and replication affect durability and performance. Plan them carefully. Ask ZSoftly support to review a change first if you want a second set of eyes.

## Next steps

- [Object Storage](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/cloud-storage/reference/object-storage). S3 endpoint and clients.
- [Block Storage](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/cloud-storage/reference/block-storage). RBD volumes.
- [File Storage](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/cloud-storage/reference/file-storage). CephFS shared filesystem.
- [Replication & DR](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/cloud-storage/reference/replication-dr). Protect and replicate your data.