That’s all from this tutorial, I hope you got an idea on how to install and use Cockpit Web console effectively on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server. If you wish to access terminal of your system from cockpit dashboard then choose “ Terminal” tab. If you want to manage local account then choose ‘ Accounts’ tab from web console, here you can create new local accounts and change the parameters of existing users like password reset, roles and lock account.
If you wish to manage any service, just click on that service Apart from this we can also add VLAN tagged interfaces on our system.ĥ) Manage System and Application servicesįrom the ‘ services’ tab we can restart, stop and enable system and application services. We have the features like creating bonding and bridge interface. Here we can view our system Ethernet cards speed. System networking can easily be managed via networking tab from cockpit web console. System logs can also be viewed based on its severity. Once the package is installed then logout and login to Cockpit console.įrom the ‘ Logs’ tab we can view our system logs. To enable this option install ‘ cockpit-machines’ using apt command, $ sudo apt install cockpit-machines -y
It is also possible that we can manage KVM VMs using cockpit web console but by default ‘ Virtual Machine’ option is not enabled. So, go ahead and click on “Restart System”Ģ) Managing KVM Virtual Machine with cockpit We will get the message on the screen to reboot the system after applying the updates. If you wish to install all available updates, then click on “ Install All Updates” option One of important administrative task is to apply system updates, from cockpit web console we can easily do this, go to the ‘ System Updates’ option where we you will get the available updates for your system, example is shown below, When we first time login to dashboard, it shows basic information about our system like package updates, RAM & CPU utilization and Hardware and system configuration etc. Administrative Task from Cockpit Web Console on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server
Let’s see what are the different administrative task that can be performed from this dashboard. Perfect above screen confirms that we have successfully able to access and login cockpit dashboard. Use the root credentials or sudo user credentials to login, in my case ‘ pkumar’ is the sudo user for my setup. Now access Cockpit web console using following url: Run following ‘ ufw’ command to allow cockpit port in OS firewall, :~$ sudo ufw allow 9090/tcp
Access Cockpit Web ConsoleĬockpit listen its service on 9090 tcp port, in case firewall is configured on your Ubuntu server 20.04 then you have to allow 9090 port in firewall. Run the following to verify the status of cockpit service, $ sudo systemctl status cockpitĪbove output confirms that cockpit has been started successfully. Once cockpit package is installed successfully then start its service using the following systemctl command, $ sudo systemctl start cockpit
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