If I remember correctly, the cockpit module to install self-hosted engine graphically has been deprecated since at least 4.4 (but for sure in 4.5)

Since then, the cockpit interface is only useful to prepare the gluster bricks. But note that gluster and hyperconverged self hosted engine are also deprecated nowadays (still functional though).

the proper and supported way to install a self-hosted ovirt engine from an ovirt node is through the command line, as per the documentation :

https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/installing_ovirt_as_a_self-hosted_engine_using_the_command_line/index.html#Deploying_the_Self-Hosted_Engine_Using_the_CLI_install_RHVM

It's a bit involved, read everything from the whole doc and prepare well.

good luck!

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 4:31 PM arkansascontrols--- via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote:

Clearly something is missing from this installation. All of the basic descriptions, screen shots and YouTube videos even of older versions show a simple interface where VM's can be created and managed like you would expect with any hypervisor. I have a Web Interface with several different tabs, but there is no means to even create a VM.

If Choose Help and About it reports:
Web Console
Cockpit 305
cockpit-bridge 305
cockpit-system 305
cockpit-ws 305

On the left hand side I have a vertical explorer, at the top is a drop-down list with my 3 nodes I can select from;
Next is a search box
then System (not clickable just a heading with 5 sub items)
Overview
Logs
Networking
Accounts
Services

Then Tools (not clickable just a heading with 4 sub items)
Diagnostic Reports
Kernel Dump
SELinux
Terminal

Any help is appreciated. If anyone knows of another discussion forum that I might peruse please let me know.
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