Ajenti is an open source web based system management control panel for managing remote system administrating tasks from the web browser much similar to Webmin module. Ajenti is a much powerful and lightweight tool, that provides fast and responsive web interface for managing small server set-ups and also best suitable for VPS and Dedicated servers. It has built with many pre-made plugins for configuring and monitoring server software’s and services such as Apache, Cron, File System, Firewall, MySQL, Nginx, Munin, Samba, FTP, Squid and many other tools like File Manager, Code Editor for developers and Terminal access.
In this article we’re going to show you how we going to install Ajenti Server Manager tool on RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, Fedora 19/18/17/16/15/14/13/12, Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/11.10, Linux Mint 15/14/13/12 and Debian Sid, Debian Wheezy and Debian Squeeze systems using own ajenti repository.
Installing Ajenti On RHEL/CentOS and Fedora
Ajenti is a third party tool and requires EPEL repositories to be enabled on our system to install dependency packages. Use the given link to install it.
Once enabled, now we can move further to download and install Ajenti’s official repository using “wget” command. If you don’t have “wget” package, install using “yum install wget“.
# wget http://repo.ajenti.org/ajenti-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm -i ajenti-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Install the package using “YUM” package manager tool.
# yum install ajenti
Once installation finishes, open “8000” port on firewall/router for remote access of web interface. Open the following file with VI editor.
# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Append the following two lines at the bottom of the file, save and close it.
-A INPUT -p udp -m state --state NEW --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT
Next, restart iptables service.
# service iptables restart
Installing Ajenti On Ubuntu/Debian and Linux Mint
As I said above, Ajenti is not included in the default repository, it needs to be added. So, let’s download and add the ajenti PPA repository to “/etc/apt/sources“.list.
# wget http://repo.ajenti.org/debian/key -O- | apt-key add - # echo "deb http://repo.ajenti.org/ng/debian main main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
Once PPA added, update the system and then install the package.
# apt-get update && apt-get install ajenti
To verify, open a web browser and type the IP of the server where we’ve installed Ajenti and enter default username “admin” or “root” and password is “admin“.
https://localhost:8000 OR https://ip-address:8000
Login Screen
Dashboard
Plugins
Filesystem
Firewall
System Packages
Running Processes
File Manager
Running Services
Ravi, great tutorial. Thank you.
But, unfortunately during install i got this error: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
If someone encountered this error as well you should execute the following command as noted in http://bit.ly/1rqdVOL:
yum clean metadata
After that, it works.
hi
i was install ajenti on centos 6.5 minimal and the part of my iptables is:
-A INPUT -m state –state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 8000 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state –state NEW -m udp -p udp –dport 8000 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j REJECT –reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A FORWARD -j REJECT –reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT
but when i try to access web with port 8000 i dont have this
please help me for solve this problem
my 8000 port is open and in listening.
thanks
Arash, is the port 8000 opening from localhost? have your tried accessing it from localhost?
hi,my dear friend
thanks a lot
i was install on centos 6.5 minimal with command prompt
and i have ping my ip from other network and i add rull for port 8000 in ip table
but i dont accesss to ajenti by web .but i install this software on centos desktop and this work correctly
for example:https://192.168.200.90:8000
Are you able to access using http://localhost:8000?
Hi Guys,
I have very bad experience with Ajenti, I will recommend you not to use this product, I installed it on debian wheezy VPS server. After one week, it start broadcasting data from server. I got to know about this after three days when my VPS provider sent me a mail that you VPS has consumed data bandwidth of 180 GB in just three days, youneed to check the server.
When I check this then I uninstalled this and data broadcasting stop after it. For security reason I have to configure whole server from start after reset up vps from vps provider.
So again, I will not suggest anybody to use this.
Regards
Amit Bondwal
Hi greetings of the day
am trying to install ajenti in ubuntu usinng aws.amazon server..
i done with all settings and i open 8000 port number in firewall but also am unable to get web page on :8000 getting error as Webpage is not available
Thanks