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Cockpit:


Cockpit is the server administration tool sponsered by redhat focused on providing a modern looking and user friendly interface to manage and administrator servers.


cockpit is the easy-to-use, integrated, glanceable, and open web-based interface for your servers. The application is available in most of the linux distribution such as centos, redhat, ubuntu and fedora. It is installed in redhat 8 by default and it is optional in version 7.


It can monitor system resources, add or remove accounts, monitor system usage shut down the system and perform quite a few other tasks all through a very accessible web connection

Install, configure and manage cockpit:


1. Ensure internet is working in linux server.


2. yum install cockpit-y: install cockpit I


3.systemctl enable cockpit: enable at boot.


4. systemctl start cockpit :start the service


S. systemctl status cockpit: check the status of the cockpit service.


6. https://192.168.1.12:9090: access the cockpit web interface.

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