Hello Carlos,
carlos castro [2021-09-20 8:38 +0100]:
I would like to use cockpit as and update manager for all my linux
machines.
My question is if i can only install this component, and if so how can i do it,
The minimum packages that you can install are cockpit-packagekit for the
"Software Updates" page, and cockpit-system to get the "shell". The
latter has
a lot of other pages, though. You can add "override files" to
/usr/share/cockpit/ or ~user/.local/share/cockpit to hide pages though, if you
desire:
https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/packages.html#package-manifest
If you want to use
https://target.machine:9090 directly, you also need
cockpit-ws (the web server). Otherwise, install that on just one central
machine and use the "remote hosts" facility (on the login page or the host
switcher in a Cockpit session), then ssh suffices on the remote machines. This
is what I'd recommend for managing many machines, to avoid having lots of web
servers.
Martin