webmin not showing any host PC info

[mattman73]

Hello
I'm not sure if this should or should not but when running this in docker on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS host.
I'm not getting any real-time information from the host PC.
can you let me know what I need to do to get this to work?
Thanks
Matt

[iPCNet]

Hi,
since you are running this in a container, the environment is kinda virtualized and isolated. If you want to manage the host itself (for updates etc.), I think it is better to install it directly in the OS and not deploy it as a container.

The container makes sense, if you would like to provide services like DNS, DHCP and all the other magic it can do. Then depending on the service you should mount different volumes for the services (e.g. /etc/bind/ & /var/lib/bind/ for DNS-config).

Otherwise you could use it as a control node for a cluster if you have multiple webmin servers.

This is not a solution to your issue, but I think that this is the intended use-case.

[johanpi]

Hi, since you are running this in a container, the environment is kinda virtualized and isolated. If you want to manage the host itself (for updates etc.), I think it is better to install it directly in the OS and not deploy it as a container.

The container makes sense, if you would like to provide services like DNS, DHCP and all the other magic it can do. Then depending on the service you should mount different volumes for the services (e.g. /etc/bind/ & /var/lib/bind/ for DNS-config).

Otherwise you could use it as a control node for a cluster if you have multiple webmin servers.

This is not a solution to your issue, but I think that this is the intended use-case.

100% correct