Chapter 9. Host management and monitoring by using the RHEL web console

Procedure

• Enable the RHEL web console on your Satellite Server:

  # satellite-installer --enable-foreman-plugin-remote-execution-cockpit --reset-foreman-plugin-remote-execution-cockpit-ensure

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Prerequisites

• You have enabled the RHEL web console in Satellite.

• You have installed the RHEL web console on the host that you want to manage and monitor.

  Satellite provides a job template named Service Action – Enable Web Console under the Ansible Services job category that you can use to install the RHEL web console. For more information about running remote jobs, see Chapter 13, Configuring and setting up remote jobs.

• Satellite or Capsule can authenticate to the host with SSH keys. For more information, see Section 13.14, “Distributing SSH keys for remote execution”.

Additional resources

• For more information about using the RHEL web console, see the following documents:

  • Managing systems using the RHEL 9 web console
  • Managing systems using the RHEL 8 web console
  • Managing systems using the RHEL 7 web console

• For more information about using Red Hat Image Builder through the RHEL web console, see the following documents:

  • Accessing the RHEL image builder dashboard in the RHEL web console in Composing a customized RHEL system image (RHEL 9)
  • Accessing the RHEL image builder dashboard in the RHEL web console in Composing a customized RHEL system image (RHEL 8)
  • Accessing Image Builder GUI in the RHEL 7 web console in Image Builder Guide (RHEL 7)

Procedure

• Disable the RHEL web console on your Satellite Server:

  # satellite-installer --foreman-plugin-remote-execution-cockpit-ensure absent

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