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IT19115962 Lab-5 Cockpit

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring the Cockpit server management software on a CentOS server. It outlines the steps to install Cockpit using yum, start and enable the Cockpit service, check the firewall status, and access the Cockpit web interface at https://SERVER IP:9090 using the root user after installation is complete. Cockpit is an easy-to-use remote server manager that allows administrators to perform tasks like launching containers, managing storage, networking and viewing logs via a web browser.

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IT19115962 Lab-5 Cockpit

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring the Cockpit server management software on a CentOS server. It outlines the steps to install Cockpit using yum, start and enable the Cockpit service, check the firewall status, and access the Cockpit web interface at https://SERVER IP:9090 using the root user after installation is complete. Cockpit is an easy-to-use remote server manager that allows administrators to perform tasks like launching containers, managing storage, networking and viewing logs via a web browser.

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IE3020

Directory Services and Network Management


3rd Year, 1st Semester

COCKPIT Lab

Submitted to
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the


Bachelor of Science Special Honors Degree in Information Technology

2021-06-30
Declaration
I certify that this report does not incorporate without acknowledgement, any material
previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any university, and to the best of my knowledge
and belief it does not contain any material previously published or written by another person,
except where due reference is made in text.

Registration Number : IT19115962


Name : H.B.G. Hasintha Kashmika

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1. Install the cockpit software on the server with the following command on the centos. #
sudo yum install cockpit

Type y to download the files and install.

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2. After the installation is complete, use the following two commands to start and enable
the Cockpit service.

# sudo systemctl start cockpit


# sudo systemctl enable cockpit.socket

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3. Finally, double-check that the firewall is turned on. We shouldn't have any trouble
getting to Cockpit right out of the box, but if we do, we can open up the firewall with
the following commands:
# sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit
# sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit –permanent
# sudo firewall-cmd –reload

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4. Give the command

# Sudo systemctl start cockpit


# Sudo systemctl status cockpit

check the service's status

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5. Getting into the Cockpit At this point, we can navigate to https://SERVER IP:9090
and log into Cockpit using the root user and the root password we generated. We can
start utilizing Cockpit after we've been verified.

In our server IP is : 10.0.1.2

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Cockpit is an interactive server management user interface that delivers a live Linux session
via a web browser. It's an easy-to-use, lightweight, and simple yet powerful remote manager
for GNU/Linux servers.
It works with a variety of Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS,
RHEL, and Arch Linux.
Cockpit makes Linux discoverable, allowing system administrators to do operations such as
launching containers, managing storage, network setups, and log inspections, among others,
with ease and reliability.

Cockpit features

• include the ability to manage many servers in a single Cockpit session.


• In a terminal window, it provides a web-based shell.
• Docker may be used to manage containers.
• Ensures that system user accounts are managed efficiently.
• The Performance Co-Pilot framework is used to collect system performance data and
show it on a graph.
• Sos-report facilitates the collection of system configuration and diagnostic data.
• Supports a Kubernetes or Openshift v3 cluster as well.
• Allows the user to change network settings, among other things.

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