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Once a storage cluster with PX-Security enabled is running, a cluster admin must set up a pxctl context on each node in order to interact with the system.

The following steps will guide an Operator-based storage admin to setup pxctl contexts on each node.

1. Retrieve the admin token from the namespace in which Portworx was installed and store it in th

   ADMIN_TOKEN=$(kubectl -n kube-system get secret px-admin-token --template='{{index .data "auth-token" | base64decode}}')

2. Find the Portworx pod that is running on the node in which the admin wants to interact with:

   K8_NODE_NAME=kubernetes-worker-3.mylab.lan # must match what appears in output of kubectl get nodes
   PX_POD=$(kubectl -n kube-system get pods -l name=portworx -o jsonpath='{.items[?(@.spec.nodeName == "'K8_NODE_NAME'")].metadata.name}')

3. Save the admin token in the pxctl context for that pod:

   kubectl -n kube-system exec -ti $PX_POD -- /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl context create admin --token=$ADMIN_TOKEN

4. Use kubectl exec to access the Portworx container and perform any pxctl operations:

   kubectl -n kube-system exec -ti $PX_POD -- /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl status

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