🧑‍✈️Cockpit

A web-based graphical interface for Linux

What is Cockpit?

It is a web-based graphical interface for Linux machines. It simplifies management, and critically, it allows easy CLI access to the WLAN Pi without requiring a dedicated SSH client.

Cockpit Project — Cockpit Project

How to access Cockpit?

1. Click on COCKPIT from within the menu bar

   

   WLAN Pi WebUI

   If you get a connection failure, try again using a different browser.

2. Login using the default 'first time boot' credentials username: wlanpi password: wlanpi\

3. You will be prompted to change your password, this is NOT optional. YOU MUST do this to proceed\

If you are stuck for ideas regarding the new password, for the duration of this Deep Dive **ONLY** consider using your WLAN Pi hostname `wlanpi-xxx`

1. The first time you log in to Cockpit, you will be in limited access mode.\

Look towards the top of the Web UI, click on\
"`Turn on administrative access"` \
re-enter your password to get full access to WLAN Pi

1. Now please have a poke around, explore what functionality is exposed by Cockpit UI

Terminal

The menu option at the bottom of the left side panel is Terminal

For the duration of the Deep Dive, this web-based terminal will be the default (recommended) method for accessing the WLAN Pi terminal. Although if you want, you can SSH into the WLAN Pi.

Terminal session to WLAN Pi via browser (Cockpit)

Does our WLAN Pi have an internet connection?

Execute command reachability in the Terminal window within Cockpit.

When is re-imaging of the SD card required?

System-level updates will be made occasionally that require re-imaging your microSD card.

If you choose to re-image your SD card with the latest release of WLAN Pi OS, this will come with the latest version of all the default packages found in the package archives enabled by WLAN Pi OS.

To update only WLAN Pi packages to their latest versions, you can use this CLI command:

 sudo wlanpi-update

wlanpi-update is a wrapper around aptitude which only updates WLAN Pi packages. You can also update WLAN Pi packages by using apt update and apt upgrade.

Or you can navigate to the Software Updates section in Cockpit.

Configure correct time zone

If you have not already done so (via FPMS) you can configure / double-check the timezone from Cockpit.

Open Overview and click on System time 'Feb 5, 2024 6:39 PM' – highlighted in red below**.** You can figure out the rest 😉

Hint

You need to enable administrative access.

Configure the timezone using Cockpit (click on the displayed System time)