Multiple Hosts Not A Lot of Time

[Ryan McClung]

Hey All,

We are running an instance of Cockpit on a CentOS 7 vm. We have ~40
computers and we would like to add all of them to Cockpit. Is there a
faster method other than manually adding it to the ui?

[Stephen Kluthe]

You can setup an ansible playbook and add all of your hosts to it. That
will be the fastest way. You just need ansible installed on 1 host and it
will ssh into the other boxes and install it.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 1:41 PM Ryan McClung  wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> We are running an instance of Cockpit on a CentOS 7 vm. We have ~40
> computers and we would like to add all of them to Cockpit. Is there a
> faster method other than manually adding it to the ui?
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[Martin Pitt]

Hello Ryan,

Ryan McClung [2018-04-13 16:41 -0400]:
> We are running an instance of Cockpit on a CentOS 7 vm. We have ~40
> computers and we would like to add all of them to Cockpit. Is there a
> faster method other than manually adding it to the ui?

You can create an /etc/cockpit/machines.d/01-mymachines.json mechanically. The
format is documented here:

http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-machines.html

Note that Cockpit does not currently support having that many machines in the
Dashboard, so you might run into trouble there.

Martin

[Ryan McClung]

@Martin -- Understood about the host size limitation. How do I make the web
ui show the information I put in the file? I have the file and I am using
the conventions listed in the wiki but it isn't showing.

@Stephen -- Is there a way of pushing cockpit out to the hosts without
installing the web service?

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Martin Pitt  wrote:
> Hello Ryan,
>
> Ryan McClung [2018-04-13 16:41 -0400]:
> > We are running an instance of Cockpit on a CentOS 7 vm. We have ~40
> > computers and we would like to add all of them to Cockpit. Is there a
> > faster method other than manually adding it to the ui?
>
> You can create an /etc/cockpit/machines.d/01-mymachines.json
> mechanically. The
> format is documented here:
>
> http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-machines.html
>
> Note that Cockpit does not currently support having that many machines in
> the
> Dashboard, so you might run into trouble there.
>
> Martin
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[Stephen Kluthe]

I'm sure there is but I'm not sure exactly how off the top of my head. I've
just used it to install cockpit from the base repositories. Installing
things via ansible is fairly basic. There's a lot of info out there on how
to do it.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 6:52 AM Ryan McClung  wrote:
> @Martin -- Understood about the host size limitation. How do I make the
> web ui show the information I put in the file? I have the file and I am
> using the conventions listed in the wiki but it isn't showing.
>
> @Stephen -- Is there a way of pushing cockpit out to the hosts without
> installing the web service?
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Martin Pitt  wrote:
> > Hello Ryan,
> >
> > Ryan McClung [2018-04-13 16:41 -0400]:
> > > We are running an instance of Cockpit on a CentOS 7 vm. We have ~40
> > > computers and we would like to add all of them to Cockpit. Is there a
> > > faster method other than manually adding it to the ui?
> >
> > You can create an /etc/cockpit/machines.d/01-mymachines.json
> > mechanically. The
> > format is documented here:
> >
> > http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-machines.html
> >
> > Note that Cockpit does not currently support having that many machines in
> > the
> > Dashboard, so you might run into trouble there.
> >
> > Martin
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> > [e-mail]
>
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[Stephen Gallagher]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:53 AM Ryan McClung  wrote:
> @Martin -- Understood about the host size limitation. How do I make the
> web ui show the information I put in the file? I have the file and I am
> using the conventions listed in the wiki but it isn't showing.
>
> @Stephen -- Is there a way of pushing cockpit out to the hosts without
> installing the web service?

Instead of installing 'cockpit' (which is a metapackage that pulls in a lot
of the rest of Cockpit, including the web server), pull in 'cockpit-system'
and then whichever components you want (like 'cockpit-networkmanager',
'cockpit-storaged', etc.)

[Ryan McClung]

@Stephen -- I have had some success adding computers that aren't running
cockpit. Is installing Cockpit necessary to monitor those computers?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Stephen Gallagher 
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:53 AM Ryan McClung 
> wrote:
> > @Martin -- Understood about the host size limitation. How do I make the
> > web ui show the information I put in the file? I have the file and I am
> > using the conventions listed in the wiki but it isn't showing.
> >
> > @Stephen -- Is there a way of pushing cockpit out to the hosts without
> > installing the web service?
>
> Instead of installing 'cockpit' (which is a metapackage that pulls in a
> lot of the rest of Cockpit, including the web server), pull in
> 'cockpit-system' and then whichever components you want (like
> 'cockpit-networkmanager', 'cockpit-storaged', etc.)
>
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