How to Install Cockpit on CentOS
Hi all,
Today we are going to see how to install cockpit tool on cent OS 7.
Cockpit is a system administration tool that provides a user interface for monitoring and administering servers through a web browser.
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Monitoring basic system features, such as hardware, internet connection, or performance characteristics
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Analyzing the content of the system log files
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Configuring basic networking features, such as interfaces, network logs, packet sizes
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Managing user accounts
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Monitoring and configuring system services
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Creating diagnostic reports
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Setting kernel dump configuration
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Configuring SELinux
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Accessing the terminal
Now let’s see how to install it.
Step 1 )
We can install the software from the default CentOS repository using the following command.
sudo yum -y install cockpit
Steps 2 )
Once you have installed Cockpit, start and enable it using the following commands.
systemctl start cockpit
systemctl enable cockpit.socket
Step 3 )
Run the following commands to allow all of the required ports through the firewall.
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
The installation of Cockpit is now complete, you can access the dashboard by navigating to the following URL.
http://<your-IP>:9090
Thanks for reading this tutorial, hope It will be useful 🙂