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  1. Sos

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    Honestly haven't tried Cockpit so wouldn't know 100%
     
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    Bump, just to see others experience with this and if it is really worth it.
     
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    Just tried Cockpit on Centmin Mod with CentOS 7 Running Cockpit — Cockpit Project - skipping firewalld steps as Centmin Mod uses CSF Firewall and already whitelists the IP of user that installed Centmin Mod so you can access it at yourhostname:9090 or serverip:9090 without needing to open TCP port 9090 or below custom TCP port 9091
    Code (Text):
    cockpit_port=9091
    yum -y install cockpit sos cockpit-dashboard cockpit-storaged
    mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/cockpit.socket.d/
    echo -e "[Socket]\nListenStream=\nListenStream=$cockpit_port\n" > /etc/systemd/system/cockpit.socket.d/listen.conf
    systemctl daemon-reload
    systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket
    

    But haven't used it enough to comment, just that logging in to cockpit works :)

    edit: looks good so far testing on my VirtualBox based CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 instances. Though not much of a fan of opening up web/gui access to a server as it's just another avenue for server compromise if not managed properly.
     
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    Not much useful to me, except for this real-time stats on the dashboard.

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    Not fan - even has web gui for terminal/SSH access though the scrollbar doesn't seem to work in the terminal so mouse scroll wheel only.

    Example of Cockpit on Centmin Mod with CentOS 7 Running Cockpit — Cockpit Project - skipping firewalld steps as Centmin Mod uses CSF Firewall and already whitelists the IP of user that installed Centmin Mod so you can access it at yourhostname:9090 or serverip:9090 without needing to open TCP port 9090 or below custom TCP port 9091
    Code (Text):
    cockpit_port=9091
    yum -y install cockpit sos cockpit-dashboard cockpit-storaged
    mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/cockpit.socket.d/
    echo -e "[Socket]\nListenStream=\nListenStream=$cockpit_port\n" > /etc/systemd/system/cockpit.socket.d/listen.conf
    systemctl daemon-reload
    systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket
    


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    Cockpit's Machines listing of CentOS 7 primary server and added access to CentOS 8 remote server

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    Cockpit remote server access to CentOS 8 server from CentOS 7 reported YUM updates - looks like CentOS 8 includes a compat-openssl10 YUM package for backwards compatibility to OpenSSL 1.0.2o as some packages may not support CentOS 8's OpenSSL 1.1.1 version. Oh yes playing with Percona MySQL 8 and Remi YUM repositories on CentOS 8 :)

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    Cockpit web terminal SSH access to CentOS 7 server initial login to Centmin Mod LEMP stack server

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    Centmin Mod LEMP stack's cminfo top output in web terminal which shows Centmin Mod server statistics :)

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  7. eva2000

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    Yeah I guess depends on what you need in a web gui. I can see web gui based terminal SSH access might come in handy for some folks - though scary to think if not secured properly, you'd be opening up access to hackers or potential compromise of your server ! You can lock it down to a different custom TCP port and IP access I suppose. Or just enable cockpit service via proper SSH access only when you need to and disable/stop cockpit service when you don't need it.

    Actually, thinking about it, it isn't that bad for Centmin Mod LEMP stack servers as by default they use CSF Firewall and it blocks cockpit's default port 9090 from access. When you initially install Centmin Mod LEMP stack, CSF Firewall whitelists the user's ISP ip automatically so you can access cockpit web gui without needing to open port 9090 to the public internet. So I guess you're almost as secure as traditional SSH client access/login seeing as you use same system linux users to login to Cockpit web gui. But danger is some folks to troubleshoot issues are disabling CSF Firewall, which then could open up access - though it shouldn't as CSF Firewall is only place underlying iptables has whitelisted ports.
     
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    Documentation about this 3?
    Thanks!
     
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    what no google-fu ? :)
     
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    This is now included on CentOS 8.1 DigitalOcean Image.
    Or maybe included on default CentOS8?
     
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    It's default installed on DO Centos 8.1.
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    check if yum history list shows cockpit being installed at some point in the life of server or was it baked into the image
    Code (Text):
    yum history list cockpit
     
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    I already destroy the droplet.
    I will check next time.
     
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    A nice to have as I have my Hetrixtools free plan full already.

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    The best thing is it's free, realtime and only run when you open the webUI.
     
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    Indeed :)
     
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    Oh with more other things like it monitor for updates, be able to update from the cockpit.
    And show some Load Spike (shows all the logs during that specific period), which I don't see much on free monitoring tools.

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  18. eva2000

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    Revisiting RHEL Cockpit for EL8+ and even trying to add my own Cockpit plugins for Centmin Mod pages - I can see probably adding some Centmin Mod routines to Cockpit for a GUI control panel of sorts one day - not anytime soon though :)

    Example on AlmaLinux 8.9 KVM VPS with Cockpit enabled + Centmin Mod custom plugin page which only has a button for cminfo command to output a summary of Centmin Mod LEMP stack installed software, nginx vhosts, pure-ftpd accounts, php-fpm config etc.

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    Cockpit native SSH terminal

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    System Overview

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    Nginx service info and history

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    Yum updates

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