Edit or Remove Secondary Host

System administrators can use the Host menu on the primary Cockpit web console to edit or remove secondary host configurations.

Important:

Adding and connecting to secondary hosts is deprecated in the Cockpit web console for Oracle Linux 10 hosts, and is disabled by default. The Cockpit web console for Oracle Linux 8 or 9 hosts still provides this function. For more information, see Deprecation of Host Switching.

What Do You Need?

  • Established connection with the primary Cockpit web console.

    Note:

    The primary Cockpit web console is the management web console that's configured with secondary hosts.
  • Administrator privileges.

Steps

Using the primary Cockpit web console, follow these steps to edit or remove a secondary host configuration.

  1. In the upper left corner of the web console, click the down arrow next to the primary host name.
    The Host drop-down menu appears listing the name of each secondary host configuration.
  2. In the Host drop-down menu, click Edit hosts and then perform one of the following:
    Remove secondary host configuration:
    1. Click the red [-] minus button next to the secondary host name that you want to remove. A prompt appears to confirm the removal operation, click Yes to proceed.
    2. Click Stop editing host
    - OR -
    Edit existing secondary host configuration:
    1. Click the pencil (This image shows a pencil that symbolizes the Edit functionality.) icon next to the secondary host name that you want to edit.
    2. In the Edit [hostname] dialog, make the necessary changes, and click Set.
    3. Click Stop editing hosts.