How to change cockpit port from 9090 to some other port in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?

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Issue

  • How to change cockpit port from 9090 to some other port in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?
  • Satellite 6.2 smart proxy also listens on port 9090. This conflicts with Cockpit service. Can the cockpit be changed ?
  • "systemctl status cockpit.socket" shows the error "Address already in use" on a Red Hat Satellite server.
 cockpit.socket - Cockpit Web Service Socket
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cockpit.socket; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: resources)
     Docs: man:cockpit-ws(8)
   Listen: 0.0.0.0:9090 (Stream)

Sep 1 14:18:16 XXX systemd[1]: cockpit.socket failed to listen on sockets: Address already in use

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Cockpit
  • Cockpit to run on Satellite 6.2

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