DumbMonit

IntegrationenVirtualisierung und Container

Proxmox VE überwachen mit DumbMonit

Nodes, virtual machines, containers, storage and backups of a Proxmox server or cluster.

DokumentationOffizielle Website: Proxmox VE

Die Produktbeschreibungen sind englisch, wie im Produkt. Die Beschriftungen der Seite folgen Ihrer Sprache.

Was DumbMonit überwacht

Hypervisor: nodes with their daemons and networking, virtual machines, containers, storages, LVM thin pools, backups, high availability, snapshots, replication, Ceph down to the OSD, physical disks and ZFS pools, pending updates, package changes, subscription and certificates. One monitor can cover a whole cluster.

Typischer Einsatz. Hypervisor, cluster

Beispiele

  • Proxmox server
  • Proxmox cluster

Wie die Verbindung läuft

Was Sie brauchen

  • API token (recommended)No expiry and no session opened: the right choice for monitoring.
  • Username / passwordOpens a two-hour session, renewed automatically. Use it only if tokens are not an option.

Zu öffnende Netzwerk-Ports

  • 8006/TCPAPI (HTTPS, default)
Einrichtungsschritte: Create a read-only user and token in Proxmox VE
  1. Open Datacenter → Permissions → Users → Add, enter the user name dumbmonit, choose the realm Proxmox VE authentication server, then click Add.

    dumbmonit@pve
  2. Open Datacenter → Permissions → Add → User Permission: path /, user dumbmonit@pve, role PVEAuditor, then click Add.

  3. Open Datacenter → Permissions → API Tokens → Add: user dumbmonit@pve, Token ID monitor, untick Privilege Separation, then click Add.

    dumbmonit@pve!monitor
  4. Copy the Token ID and the Secret into DumbMonit's Token ID and Secret fields. The secret is shown only once.

  5. Optional, for the pending-updates count: Datacenter → Permissions → Roles → Create a role with only Sys.Modify, then add it as a User Permission on path /nodes.

  6. In DumbMonit, enter the address of any node (port 8006 by default).

Hinweis. Proxmox VE uses a self-signed certificate by default: tick "Accept an unverifiable certificate" in the options if the connection is refused. On Proxmox VE 8, guest agent details also need VM.Monitor (see the guide).