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Cockpit is an interactive server admin interface. It is easy to use and very light weight.

Cockpit Features

Easy to use

Cockpit is perfect for new sysadmins, allowing them to easily perform simple tasks such as storage administration, inspecting journals and starting and stopping services.

No interference

Jumping between the terminal and the web tool is no problem. A service started via Cockpit can be stopped via the terminal. Likewise, if an error occurs in the terminal, it can be seen in the Cockpit journal interface.

Multi-server

You can monitor and administer several servers at the same time. Just add them with a single click and your machines will look after its buddies.

Note:- Unless you got Cockpit via a stable release of an OS, treat it as pre-release software. We recommend installing pre-release versions in a virtual machine.

Install cockpit on ubuntu 15.04/15.10

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jpsutton/cockpit sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cockpit

Once you finish the installation you need to start the cockpit service using the following command

sudo systemctl start cockpit

If you want to start cockpit service automatically when you reboot your server use the following command

sudo systemctl enable cockpit.socket

Cockpit GUI access

You can access cockpit GUI using the following URL

https://server-ip:9090

Once it opens you should see the following screen here you need to enter your login details to enter

Once it opens you should see the following screen

Cockpit Screenshots

If you want to manage multiple servers using cockpit first you have to install cockpit on all the servers.



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