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Cockpit's cockpit-ws
component is what the browser connects to
and it typically starts on demand via
systemd
socket activation.
The actual cockpit.service
and cockpit-ws
process will start on
demand when a browser accesses the cockpit.socket
,
usually on port 9090. Once a user logs in then
a cockpit-bridge
process will be started in a Linux user login session. The
bridge will exit when the user logs out. In addition, after 10 minutes of inactivity, the
cockpit-ws
process will exit on its own.
Only systems that you connect to with your browser need to have the cockpit.socket
enabled. For systems that you add to the dashboard of another Cockpit instance, the bridge is started
via SSH on demand.