Host management and monitoring using Cockpit

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

Enabling Cockpit on orcharhino

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

Procedure

  • Enable Cockpit on your orcharhino Server:

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

Managing and monitoring hosts using Cockpit

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

Prerequisites

  • You have enabled Cockpit in orcharhino.

  • You have installed Cockpit 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 Cockpit.

  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 Cockpit.

Disabling Cockpit on orcharhino

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

Procedure

  • Disable Cockpit on your orcharhino Server:

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

You can enable or disable Cockpit integration independently on orcharhino Proxy Servers. To prevent enabling Cockpit 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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