How to Install Ajenti for Managing Linux Server

To Install Ajenti for Managing Linux Server

Ajenti is an open source web-based control panel (GUI) for Linux server. It will help server administrator to manage the remote server without any problem. It’ s lightweight, powerful & responsive web interface. It includes lot of plugins for system and software configuration, monitoring and management purpose. Through this plugin we can install/manage all the major services such as web server, mail server, DNS, Network monitoring service, File System, Firewall, MySQL, Samba, FTP, Squid, etc

Download and enable the EPEL repository

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
--2016-05-17 13:42:26--  http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Resolving download.fedoraproject.org... 152.19.134.142, 5.175.150.50, 140.211.169.196, ...
Connecting to download.fedoraproject.org|152.19.134.142|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [following]
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100%[========================================================================> ] 14,540      --.-K/s   in 0.04s   

2016-05-17 13:42:27 (343 KB/s) - “ epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm”  saved [14540/14540]

Import the EPEL package by using rpm.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Download the ajenti package by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget http://repo.ajenti.org/ajenti-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
--2016-05-17 13:47:20--  http://repo.ajenti.org/ajenti-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving repo.ajenti.org... 198.232.124.224
Connecting to repo.ajenti.org|198.232.124.224|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3327 (3.2K) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]
Saving to: “ ajenti-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm” 

100%[========================================================================> ] 3,327       --.-K/s   in 0.005s  

2016-05-17 13:47:20 (611 KB/s) - “ ajenti-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm”  saved [3327/3327]

Import the downloaded package into repository by using RPM command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# rpm -i ajenti-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Now install the ajenti package by using following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install ajenti
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify,
              : versionlock
Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: ftp.iitm.ac.in
 * epel: ftp.cuhk.edu.hk
* extras: ftp.iitm.ac.in
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Installed:
  ajenti.noarch 0:1.2.23.8-1                                                                                      
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Complete!

Once the installation is completed, open “ 8000” port on firewall/router for remote access of web interface.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m state --state NEW --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT 
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT

Now restart iptables service by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# service
iptables restart iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter mangle na[ OK ]
iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ] iptables: Unloading modules: [ OK ]
iptables: Applying firewall rules: [ OK ]

Now open the browser and type the IP address of the server where we have installed. Enter the default username as " root" and password as " admin" .

https://localhost:8000
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https://< ip-address> :8000

Enter the your server ip address with port number 8000.