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Analyze Servers and Get Support

Dennis Kibbe

Mesa Community College

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Module Outline

Learning Objectives

After completing the work in this module you will be able to:

Cockpit

[student@workstation ~]$ ssh student@servera
Warning: Permanently added 'servera' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
Activate the web console with: systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Register this system with Red Hat Insights: insights-client --register
Create an account or view all your systems at https://red.ht/insights-dashboard
Last login: Sat May  3 13:59:21 2025 from ::ffff:172.25.250.9
[student@servera ~]$ sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket
    

The systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket command on servera starts the Cockpit service.

Analyze and Manage Remote Servers

Web Console

Open Firefox and log into the Web Console on port 9090.

Analyze and Manage Remote Servers

Click on Limited access to elevate privileges.

Guided Exercise

Analyze and Manage Remote Servers

Create a Diagnostics Report

Resources on the Red Hat Customer Portal

Detect and Resolve Issues with Red Hat Insights

Introduction to Red Hat Insights

Graded Quiz

Detect and Resolve Issues with Red Hat Insights

Summary

  1. The web console is a web-based management interface to your server, and is based on the open source cockpit service.
  2. The web console provides graphs of system performance, graphical tools to manage system configuration and to inspect logs, and interactive terminal interfaces.
  3. The Red Hat Customer Portal provides access to documentation, downloads, optimization tools, support case management, and subscription and entitlement management for your Red Hat products.
  4. The redhat-support-tool command-line tool queries Knowledgebase and works with support cases.
  5. Red Hat Insights is a SaaS-based predictive analytics tool to help you to identify and remediate threats to your systems' security, performance, availability, and stability.

Resources

Graded Quiz

Analyze and Manage Remote Servers

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Created on 17 February 2025 by Dennis Kibbe. Last modified on 9 June 2025 09:21:00 by DNK.