RHEA-2018:1546 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated cockpit packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

The package provides Single Sign On (SSO) from the Administration Portal to Cockpit running on a Red Hat Virtualization hypervisor.

Changes to the cockpit component:

• This update includes the ovirt-cockpit-sso package to provide Single Sign On (SSO) for the host console (Cockpit) from the Administration Portal.

To enable it on the Manager machine:

1) Install the ovirt-cockpit-sso package:
# yum install ovirt-cockpit-sso

2) Enable and start the services:
# systemctl enable cockpit.socket
# systemctl enable ovirt-cockpit-sso
# systemctl start ovirt-cockpit-sso

The service listens on 9986/tcp port.

To use the service:

1) Log into the Administration Portal.
2) Select "Host".
3) Click the "Host Console" button.
4) Optionally enable pop-up windows in your browser.
5) Optionally confirm the host's fingerprint, if prompted.

The new browser will appear with a root Cockpit session.

Note: For the best experience, the cockpit-ovirt package must be installed on the selected Red Hat Virtualization Host. (BZ#1497612)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1497612 - New package: ovirt-cockpit-sso

CVEs

(none)

References

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