To Install Ajenti Control panel on Fedora 34

Introduction:

Ajenti is a lightweight, powerful & responsive web-based control panel (GUI) that helps server administrators to manage remote servers without any glitches. There are many plugins available for system and software configuration, monitoring, and management. By using this plugin, we are able to install/manage all the major services including web server, mail server, DNS, network monitoring service, File System, Firewall, MySQL, Samba, FTP, Squid, etc.

Installation Procedure:

Step 1 : Check the OS version by using the below command

[root@linuxhelp ~]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="34 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=34
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f34"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 34 (Workstation Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:34"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f34/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=34
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=34

PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy"
VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
VARIANT_ID=workstation

Step 2 : Download the Ajenti installation script using the below curl command, which will install Ajenti along with all the needed dependencies .

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajenti/ajenti/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash -s -
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  4987  100  4987    0     0  12561      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 12561

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:: Upgrading PIP

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WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `python3 -m pip install --user` instead.
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WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

:: Installing Ajenti

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Successfully installed MarkupSafe-2.1.0 aj-2.1.44 ajenti-panel-2.1.44 ajenti.plugin.ace-0.31 ajenti.plugin.core-0.100 ajenti.plugin.dashboard-0.40 ajenti.plugin.filemanager-0.29 ajenti.plugin.filesystem-0.48 ajenti.plugin.notepad-0.29 ajenti.plugin.packages-0.35 ajenti.plugin.passwd-0.25 ajenti.plugin.plugins-0.48 ajenti.plugin.services-0.32 ajenti.plugin.settings-0.31 ajenti.plugin.terminal-0.41 arrow-1.2.2 bidict-0.21.4 bs4-0.0.1 cookies-2.2.1 docutils-0.18.1 gevent-21.1.2 gevent-websocket-0.10.1 gipc-1.3.0 greenlet-1.1.2 itsdangerous-2.1.0 jadi-1.0.3 jinja2-3.0.3 lockfile-0.12.2 passlib-1.7.4 psutil-5.9.0 pyOpenSSL-19.1.0 pyte-0.8.0 python-daemon-2.3.0 python-engineio-4.3.1 python-socketio-5.5.2 pyyaml-6.0 setproctitle-1.2.2 simplejson-3.17.6 termcolor-1.1.0 wcwidth-0.2.5 zope.event-4.5.0 zope.interface-5.4.0
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

:: Installing initscript

/usr/bin/systemctl
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ajenti.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ajenti.service.

:: Complete




Ajenti will be listening at https://192.168.6.125 192.168.122.1:8000
Log in with your root password or another OS user

Step 3 : Open the “8000” port on the firewall/router for remote access of the web interface by using the below command.

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=8000/tcp
success

Step 4: Reload the firewall by using the below command

[root@linuxhelp ~]# firewall-cmd --reload
Success

Step 5 : Open a web browser and type the IP of the server to view the installed Ajenti as shown in the below image.

Step 6 : Enter the credentials in menu as shown in the below image

Step 7: This is the dashboard of ajenti control panel

By this, the process of installing the Ajenti Control panel On Fedora 34 has come to an end.