Cockpit is a web based console for your server. You can create, manage, or delete virtual machine remotely with a nice GUI. Also you can view logs, system load, networking usage, etc. A lot of nice and useful information about your server.
My server runs Centos 7 if your using a different flavor of Linux this might vary a little depending on your distro.
1st Step:
Like always the first thing to do is make sure your system is up-to-date.
$ sudo yum update
2nd Step:
Install
$ sudo yum install cockpit
$ sudo yum install cockpit-machines
Check to see if you have virt-viewer install
$ sudo yum install virt-viewer
3rd Step:
Start and enable the daemon
$ sudo systemctl enable –now cockpit.socket
$ sudo systemctl start cockpit.socket
Check the status
$ systemctl status cockpit
4th Step:
Allow the service through your firewall
$ sudo firewall-cmd –add-service=cockpit
$ sudo firewall-cmd –add-service=cockpit –permanent
$ firewall-cmd –reload
5th Step:
The web console is now up and running
From your browser go to your enter thee ip address of your server using port 9090
http://<server-ip-address>:9090
More than likely you will be stopped with a warning about the SSL and that it might not be safe. This is because the SSL certificate is self-signed. You can ignore this and proceed. This is done usually by clicking advanced and continue to site.
You use your log in credentials of the user you have on your server.
Gordons Notes 