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# Get started

| Page                                                                        | What it covers                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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| [What is DataDike PAM](/pam/get-started/what-is-datadike-pam.md)            | What DataDike PAM does and the problem it solves: it holds the credentials of privileged accounts, hands them out without showing them, brokers the sessions that use them, and records each one.            |
| [Architecture and components](/pam/get-started/architecture.md)             | The components a running instance is made of, what each one does, how a session travels between them, and how the network path from the solution to an asset is formed.                                      |
| [Core concepts](/pam/get-started/core-concepts.md)                          | The vocabulary DataDike PAM uses, and how the objects relate to each other.                                                                                                                                  |
| [A tour of the console](/pam/get-started/console-tour.md)                   | How the console is divided into areas, how to switch between them and between organizations, and which screen holds each kind of object.                                                                     |
| [Onboard your first managed asset](/pam/get-started/first-managed-asset.md) | The end-to-end path from an empty instance to a recorded session: register an asset, choose its platform, register the account, write the authorization, connect, and find the recording in the audit trail. |