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--- start:cockpit [2022/12/14 13:22] – peter
+++ start:cockpit [2023/09/14 20:24] (current) – peter
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-***I dont personally reccomend cockpit or ovirt but here is some instructions to get going. For it to be a great contender it would need to have a lot of extra work done on it imho. Just typed this up in case some people want to use it.***
+ DATE CHECKED THIS PAGE WAS VALID: 14/09/2023
+At the time of writing proxmox is an excellent hypervisor and there are many guides to set it up. You should check that out if you havent. However if you just want a web GUI for kvm and or to monitor usage on linux hosts like network/disk/cpu etc then read the below.
 Using cockpit if you have used Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager) is very easy just install it such:
 <code>
-sudo apt-get install cockpit cockpit-machines
+sudo apt-get install cockpit cockpit-machines cockpit-pcp cockpit-system cockpit-storaged cockpit-networkmanager
 </code>
+(For just monitoring a remote linux machine you dont need the cockpit-machines package)
 Start it up:
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-Regarding ovirt - its is a full stack so there is not just the web interface - there is the hypervisor, guest additions and other bits and bobs etc. It is possible to run the ovirt-engine as a VM on one of the KVM hosts which could be your only RHEL VM. This would give a more pure debian style KVM host/one vm acting as a controller type setup. An alternative might be Proxmox but then its no longer pure debian at this time with just the 1 controller as a VM. If ovirt ever runs on debian this VM would also not be needed.
+Regarding ovirt - its is a full stack so there is not just the web interface - there is the hypervisor, guest additions and other bits and bobs etc. It is possible to run the ovirt-engine as a VM on one of the KVM hosts which could be your only RHEL VM. This would give a more pure debian style KVM host/one vm acting as a controller type setup. An alternative might be Proxmox (which is better imho). If ovirt ever runs on debian this VM would also not be needed.
+One nice thing about cockpit is it can provide basic trends of servers over a period of time so you can monitor disk activity etc say over 1 day or 1 week and see trends eg:
+{{:images:1week.png|}}
-***I dont personally reccomend cockpit or ovirt but here is some instructions to get going. For it to be a great contender it would need to have a lot of extra work done on it imho. Just typed this up in case some people want to use it.***
+This can help with trends of servers over time.

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