[ovirt-users] cocpit is not running on hosts

[Martin Sivak]

> systemctl enable cockpit.socket
> systemctl start cockpit.socket

There is slight difference on when the service gets activated (on
startup vs. on first access), but I guess either way is fine.

The documentation indeed mentions the socket way:

http://cockpit-project.org/guide/133/startup.html

Best regards

Martin Sivak

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> make sure the service is actually started and the firewall is
>> configured properly:
>>
>> systemctl status cockpit
>> firewall-cmd --list-all
>>
>> You can make sure all is fine by doing the following:
>>
>> systemctl enable cockpit
>> systemctl start cockpit
>> firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent
>> firewall-cmd --reload
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Martin Sivak
>>
>
> Actually from what I understood, the "cockpit service" has to remain
> configured as "static", while the "cockpit socket" has to be enabled.
> And in cockpit.service unit file in [Unit] section:
>
> Requires=cockpit.socket
>
>
> So in my case on a plain CentOS server acting as a node I executed:
>
> systemctl enable cockpit.socket
> systemctl start cockpit.socket
>
> And I verified I could connect to the hypervisor on port 9090 and then also
> the status of cockpit.service was "active".
>
> In messages:
>
> Mar 13 16:30:29 ov42 systemd: Starting Cockpit Web Service Socket.
> Mar 13 16:30:29 ov42 systemd: Listening on Cockpit Web Service Socket.
>
> And when I connect with browser to port 9090 some seconds later:
>
> Mar 13 16:30:47 ov42 systemd: Starting Cockpit Web Service...
> Mar 13 16:30:47 ov42 systemd: Started Cockpit Web Service.
> Mar 13 16:30:47 ov42 cockpit-ws: Using certificate:
> /etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d/0-self-signed.cert
> Mar 13 16:30:47 ov42 cockpit-ws: couldn't read from connection: Error
> reading data from TLS socket: A TLS fatal alert has been received.
> Mar 13 16:30:57 ov42 cockpit-session: pam_ssh_add: Failed adding some keys
> Mar 13 16:30:57 ov42 systemd-logind: New session 3407 of user root.
> Mar 13 16:30:57 ov42 systemd: Started Session 3407 of user root.
> Mar 13 16:30:57 ov42 systemd: Starting Session 3407 of user root.
> Mar 13 16:30:58 ov42 cockpit-ws: logged in user session
> Mar 13 16:30:58 ov42 cockpit-ws: New connection to session from 10.4.4.12
> ...
>
> For further stop/start of cockpit.socket, I see that the start of the
> cockpit.service is instead immediate when cockpit.socket starts
>
> eg:
>
> Mar 13 16:37:37 ov42 systemd: Starting Cockpit Web Service Socket.
> Mar 13 16:37:37 ov42 systemd: Listening on Cockpit Web Service Socket.
> Mar 13 16:37:37 ov42 systemd: Starting Cockpit Web Service...
> Mar 13 16:37:37 ov42 systemd: Started Cockpit Web Service.
> Mar 13 16:37:37 ov42 cockpit-ws: Using certificate:
> /etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d/0-self-signed.cert
>
> Gianluca
>
>
>