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Installing Control Center
=========================

Confluent Control Center is included in the Confluent Platform Enterprise package.

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Configure and start Control Center
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**Tip:** Start Control Center in its own terminal since this is a long running process.

#. Define the number of partitions (``<num-partitions>``) and replication (``<num-replication>``) settings for Control Center by adding these lines to your properties file (``<path-to-file>/etc/confluent-control-center/control-center.properties``).

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      # Quickstart partition and replication values
      confluent.controlcenter.internal.topics.partitions=<num-partitions>
      confluent.controlcenter.internal.topics.replication=<num-replication>
      confluent.controlcenter.command.topic.replication=<num-replication>
      confluent.monitoring.interceptor.topic.partitions=<num-partitions>
      confluent.monitoring.interceptor.topic.replication=<num-replication>
      confluent.metrics.topic.partitions=<num-partitions>
      confluent.metrics.topic.replication=<num-replication>

#. Start Control Center with your properties file specified.

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      $ <path-to-confluent>/bin/control-center-start <path-to-file>/etc/confluent-control-center/control-center.properties

   You can navigate to the Control Center web interface at http://localhost:9021/.

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To use Control Center, users must have access the host that runs the application. (You can :ref:`configure <controlcenter_configuration>` the network port that Confluent Control Center uses to serve data.) Because Confluent Control Center is a web application, you may use a proxy to control and secure access to it.


For a complete example that includes stream monitoring, see the :ref:`controlcenterquickstart`.