6.3. Installing Cockpit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts

You can install a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host’s resources and performing administrative tasks.

Installing Cockpit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts

By default, when adding a host to the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, the Manager configures the required firewall ports. See ] for details. However, if you disable Automatically configure host firewall when adding the host, manually configure the firewall according to xref:host-firewall-requirements_RHV_install[.
Install the dashboard packages:
```
yum install cockpit-ovirt-dashboard
```
```
# yum install cockpit-ovirt-dashboard
```
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Enable and start the cockpit.socket service:

systemctl enable cockpit.socket
systemctl start cockpit.socket

# systemctl enable cockpit.socket
# systemctl start cockpit.socket

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