Administering a cluster usually means qconf and an editor in a terminal, or a script. That works, but you need to know which switch opens which object, and it is easy to miss what a change touches. Qontrol, the web console for Gridware Cluster Scheduler, does the same work from the browser. I recorded a short video that shows it in action.

Gridware Cluster Scheduler: Qontrol runs the cluster

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The browser is not the only way in. Qontrol has a REST API for your own tooling, and an MCP server with dozens of tools, so AI assistants like Claude, Codex or Mistral can connect to the cluster. The tools are read-only, so an assistant can look at configuration, jobs and logs and explain why a job is still pending, but it cannot change anything. And if you run more than one cluster, Qontrol handles all of them from one console.

In 9.1.7 Qontrol also got configuration snapshots with a diff, taken by hand or on a schedule, and advance reservations can be managed there too. The Qontrol whitepaper has the background.