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Cockpit

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Introduction

Cockpit is a free and opensource web-based graphical server management tool that allows administrators and Linux users to easily manage and configure their Linux servers/PCs from a browser.

Cockpit is easy to install and simple to use. At a glance, it allows you to perform the following tasks.     

  • Keep tabs of system metrics and performance    
  • Create and manage users   
  • Browse and search system logs    
  • Inspect and interact with systemd-based services    
  • Access the terminal and run commands    
  • Inspect system’s hardware    
  • Create and manage virtual machines    
  • Upgrade software packages to their latest versions    
  • Configure Firewall & and many more.

Cockpit Installation

Update Local Package Index 

To start off, log into your server and refresh the local package index as follows.

sudo apt update

 

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