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.
