Category rhel8

User Management with Web Console

RHEL web console allows to perform below user management tasks:

• • Create new users accounts.
  • Change their parameters.
  • Lock accounts.
  • Terminate the user session.

Adding New account in Web Console

Step  1: Click Account

Step  2: Click Create new account

Step 3: In the create account dialog box add the Real Name

Step 4: Enter a unique username

Step 5: Enter a password

Step 6: Confirm the entered password

(Note: it is always advised to keep a strong password)

Step 7: Click Create

Once created User Name will be available in the list of users. In case you want to give it Administrator rights click the newly created user and click Server Administrator Role , that will add the newly created user to the wheel group used for sudo users.

Setting Expiration for an user

Expiration by default is set to never expire but it is possible to change the value by following below steps

Step 1 : Click Account

Step 2 : Click Account name you want to set the expiration

Step 3 : Add the required password change days

Step 4 : Click Change

Terminating User session

Step 1 : Click Account

Step 2 : Click Terminate Session

If button is not active that means the user is not login to the system

Lock Accounts

Step 1 : Click Account

Step 2 : Click Select the account to lock

Step 3: Click Lock Account

In the next part we will understand how to manage storage using the Web Console.

In this and subsequent part series some basic tasks a system administrator might need to perform which are optionally performed during installation.

RHEL 8 Web Console

Common task list a system admin performs via web console include 

• Monitoring basic system features 
• Inspect log files 
• Managing docker files 
• User management 
• Service management 
• Creating reports 
• Package / Software management 
• Network management 
• SElinux / Security management 
• Advance configuration task with the help of virtual terminal.

If your system does not have a RHEL 8 web console install follow the link to install before reading further. 

Restarting a system from web console

Step 1 : Click System

Step 2 : Power Option (dropdown)

Step 3 : Restart

Step 4 : write reason for restart (optional) -> 

Step 5 : select time interval before restart will take place (optional) or no delay in case of immediate restart

Step 6 : click Restart

Shutdown the system from web console

Step 1 : Click System

Step 2 : Power Option (dropdown)

Step 3 : Shutdown 

Step 4 : write reason for shutdown (optional) -> 

Step 5 : select time interval 

Step 6 : click Shutdown

Naming / Renaming Server from web console

Host name consist of two parts host + domain name. By default hostname is localhost.localdomain but you can change it during installation or from the web console.
For example:
rhel8server.testdom.it
You can configure also a pretty host name in the RHEL web console. This is specific to web console and is not considered a real hostname of the server. Capital letters , spaces are accepted characters for a pretty hostname.

Step 1 : Click System

Step 2 : Click Current Hostname

Step 3 : Enter Pretty Hostname

Step 4 : Enter Real Hostname

Step 5 : Click Change

Configuring NTP setting from web console

Step 1 : Click System

Step 2 : Click Current System Time

Step 3 : In the change time dialog box select correct timezone

Step 4 : In the change time dialog box Select "Set Time" drop down.

From the drop down you can select

Manual : for setting time manually

Automatic Using NTP : This is recommended option

Automatically Using specific NTP server : In case your company has there own NTP server select this option.

Step 5 : Click Change

Using web console for selecting performance profile

Performance profile are created and managed by the Tuned service.

Tuned is a service that monitors your system and optimizes the performance under certain workloads.

The core of Tuned are profiles, which tune your system for different use cases.
Tuned is distributed with a number of predefined profiles for use cases such as:
High throughput
Low latency
Saving power

Click the link to get full details about Configuring System Performance with Tuned in RHEL8

Steps to Change a profile with Web Console

Step 1 : Click System

Step 2 : Click current Performance Profile 

Step 3 : In the change current profile dialog box select the new profile

Step 4 : Click Change 

In part two of Configuring Basic System Settings RHEL 8 web console we will discuss about User account management with Web Console in RHEL8

RHEL 8 Cockpit Web Console is a web based management tool that allows you to complete many common RHEL tasks from a web browser , it is designed as per cloud OS. As a feature of any web based application it is accessible from remote machines by default.

Enabling Cockpit Web Console

By default cockpit gets installed on all RHEL 8 installations with exception to minimal installs, however it is not enabled by default, use below command to enable the web interface.

systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Notice that cockpit is a self contained application and does not require a web server to be installed to run this web application.

If you want to run cockpit dashboard locally from the desktop you can use below command to install the graphical interface.

 yum install virt-viewer

The next step is to open a web browser (either from a remote host, or from the RHEL 8 system console), and go to the RHEL 8 systems hostname or IP address, followed by :9090 to specify port 9090, for example: https://localhost.localdomain:9090

Log in to the Web Console with the root account, or with another RHEL account.