What's New In The Web Console In RHEL 9.3 And 8.9
Red Hat News, Thursday, February 8th, 2024
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) web console is a simplified web-based management tool that lets you manage many aspects of RHEL more efficiently.
For more information on the web console and how to get started with it, refer to the Managing systems using the RHEL 9 web console documentation.
RHEL versions 9.3 and 8.9 have a number of new features and enhancements related to the web console, including:
- Several performance monitoring improvements
- Support for managing updates on RHEL for Edge systems (RHEL 9.3 only)
- Support for defining Podman container health check actions
- Improvements to the Accounts page that allow you to specify the home directory, shell, and user ID (UID) when creating accounts
- Improvements to virtual machine (VM) management
- Several enhancements to Stratis storage management
Performance monitoring improvements
The web console will now show the top services utilizing disk I/O resources on the system, which can help when troubleshooting performance issues. The following screenshot shows that the ubi9 Podman pod is the top service on the system utilizing disk I/O resources, and is writing 304 MB/s.