Host management and monitoring using Web Console

You can use the Web Console interactive web interface to perform actions and monitor Ubuntu hosts. You can enable a remote-execution feature to integrate orcharhino with Web Console. When you install Web Console on a host that you manage with orcharhino, you can view the Web Console dashboards of that host from within the orcharhino management UI. You can also use the features that are integrated with Web Console, for example, Lorax Composer.

Enabling Web Console on orcharhino

By default, Web Console integration is disabled in orcharhino. If you want to access Web Console features for your hosts from within orcharhino, you must first enable Web Console on orcharhino Server.

Procedure

  • Enable Web Console on your orcharhino Server:

    $ orcharhino-installer --enable-foreman-plugin-remote-execution-cockpit --reset-foreman-plugin-remote-execution-cockpit-ensure

Managing and monitoring hosts using Web Console

You can access the Web Console UI through the orcharhino management UI and use the functionality to manage and monitor hosts in orcharhino.

Prerequisites

  • You have enabled Web Console in orcharhino.

  • You have installed Web Console on the host that you want to view:

  • orcharhino or orcharhino Proxy can authenticate to the host with SSH keys. For more information, see Distributing SSH Keys for Remote Execution.

Procedure

  1. In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts and select the host that you want to manage and monitor with Web Console.

  2. In the upper right of the host window, click the vertical ellipsis and select Web Console.

You can now access the full range of features available for host monitoring and management, for example, Lorax Composer, through Web Console.

Disabling Web Console on orcharhino

Perform the following procedure if you want to disable Web Console on orcharhino.

Procedure

  • Disable Web Console on your orcharhino Server:

    $ orcharhino-installer --foreman-plugin-remote-execution-cockpit-ensure absent

You can enable or disable Web Console integration independently on orcharhino Proxy Servers. To prevent enabling Web Console integration on a orcharhino Proxy Server, enter the following command after completing the procedure:

$ orcharhino-installer --foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-script-cockpit-integration false

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