42019-08-20 18:22:51SunilMohanAdapaUpdate information about .local domain and fix URLs32019-07-19 00:08:47SunilMohanAdapaAdd informatio about Cockpit needing a proper domain name22019-01-10 21:41:56SunilMohanAdapaWrite manual page for Cockpit12018-03-02 12:57:48JosephNuthalapatiCreate stub for Cockpit

Cockpit is a server manager that makes it easy to administer GNU/Linux servers via a web browser. On a FreedomBox, controls are available for many advanced functions that are not usually required. A web based terminal for console operations is also available. It can be accessed by any user on your FreedomBox belonging to the admin group. Cockpit is only usable when you have proper domain name setup for your FreedomBox and you use that domain name to access Cockpit. See the Troubleshooting section for more information. Use cockpit only if you are an administrator of GNU/Linux systems with advanced skills. FreedomBox tries to coexist with changes to system by system administrators and system administration tools like Cockpit. However, improper changes to the system might causes failures in FreedomBox functions.

Install Cockpit like any other application on FreedomBox. Make sure that Cockpit is enabled after that. cockpit-enable.png Ensure that the user account on FreedomBox that will used for Cockpit is part of the administrators group. cockpit-admin-user.png Launch the Cockpit web interface. Login using the configured user account. cockpit-login.png Start using cockpit. cockpit-system.png Cockpit is usable on mobile interfaces too. cockpit-mobile.png

The following features of Cockpit may be useful for advanced FreedomBox users.

Cockpit has a system dashboard that Shows detailed hardware information Shows basic performance metrics of a system Allows changing system time and timezone Allows changing hostname. Please use FreedomBox UI to do this Shows SSH server fingerprints cockpit-system.png

Cockpit allows querying system logs and examining them in full detail. cockpit-logs.png

Cockpit allows following advanced storage functions: View full disk information Editing disk partitions RAID management cockpit-storage1.png cockpit-storage2.png

Cockpit and FreedomBox both rely on NetworkManager to configure the network. However, Cockpit offers some advanced configuration not available on FreedomBox: Route configuration Configure Bonds, Bridges, VLANs cockpit-network1.png cockpit-network2.png cockpit-network3.png

Cockpit allows management of services and periodic jobs (similar to cron). cockpit-services1.png cockpit-services2.png

Cockpit offers a web based terminal that can be used perform manual system administration tasks. cockpit-terminal.png

Cockpit requires a domain name to be properly setup on your FreedomBox and will only work when you access it using a URL with that domain name. Cockpit will not work when using IP address in the URL. Using freedombox.local as the domain name also does not work. For example, the following URLs will not work: Starting with FreedomBox version 19.15, using .local domain works. You can access Cockpit using the URL . The .local domain is based on your hostname. If your hostname is mybox, your .local domain name will be mybox.local and the Cockpit URL will be . To properly access Cockpit, use the domain name configured for your FreedomBox.Cockpit will also work well when using a Tor Hidden Service. The following URLs will work: The reason for this behaviour is that Cockpit uses WebSockets to connect to the backend server. Cross site requests for WebSockets must be prevented for security reasons. To implement this, Cockpit maintains a list of all domains from which requests are allowed. FreedomBox automatically configures this list whenever you add or remove a domain. However, since we can't rely on IP addresses, they are not added by FreedomBox to this domain list. You can see the current list of allowed domains, as managed by FreedomBox, in /etc/cockpit/cockpit.conf. You may edit this, but do so only if you understand web security consequences of this. Back to Features introduction or manual pages. InformationSupportContributeReportsPromoteOverview Hardware Live Help Where To Start Translate Calls Talks Features Vision Q&A Design To Do Releases Press Download Manual Code Contributors Blog FreedomBox for Communities HELP & DISCUSSIONS: Discussion Forum - Mailing List - #freedombox irc.debian.org | CONTACT Foundation | JOIN Project Next call: Saturday, October 12th at 14:00 UTC Latest news: Announcing Pioneer FreedomBox Kits - 2019-03-26 This page is copyright its contributors and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. CategoryFreedomBox