Proxmox Multi Control

Manage one or many Proxmox VE servers via REST API. Multi-host support with cluster-wide overview commands. List nodes, VMs, containers; control power states; manage snapshots, backups, storage, and tasks across all your Proxmox hosts. Use when user asks about Proxmox, VMs, LXC, snapshots, backups, or server status.

Manage one or many Proxmox VE hosts from a single agent. Built for homelabs and multi-node setups.

Features:

• Multi-host: Manage multiple standalone Proxmox servers from one config
• Cluster commands: cluster-vms, cluster-status across ALL configured hosts
• Power control: Start, stop, reboot, shutdown VMs/containers
• Snapshots: Create, list, delete, rollback (with optional RAM state)
• Backups: List backups per node/storage
• Storage: View storage pools and content
• Tasks: Track async operations and logs
• Backward compatible: Works with single-host env vars too

First-Time Setup

Step 1: Create API Token on Proxmox

For each Proxmox host you want to manage:

1. Login to Proxmox web UI (https://<ip>:8006)
2. Go to Datacenter → Permissions → API Tokens → Add
3. Choose a user and token name (e.g. admin@pve!agent)
4. Click Add → copy the secret (shown only once!)

Security tip: For production environments, create a dedicated user with only the permissions you need rather than using root. Keep "Privilege Separation" enabled and assign scoped roles.

Step 2: Configure Credentials

Multi-Host (Recommended)

Create ~/.openclaw/credentials/proxmox.json:

json

{
  "default": "production",
  "hosts": {
    "production": {
      "host": "192.168.1.100",
      "token_id": "admin@pve!agent",
      "token_secret": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
      "verify_ssl": false
    },
    "backup-server": {
      "host": "192.168.1.101",
      "token_id": "admin@pve!agent",
      "token_secret": "yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy",
      "verify_ssl": false
    }
  }
}

Then secure the file:

bash

chmod 600 ~/.openclaw/credentials/proxmox.json

Single Host (Quick Setup)

Set environment variables:

bash

export PVE_HOST="192.168.1.100"
export PVE_TOKEN_ID="admin@pve!agent"
export PVE_TOKEN_SECRET="xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"

Step 3: Test Connection

bash

python3 scripts/proxmox.py hosts          # verify config
python3 scripts/proxmox.py nodes           # test default host
python3 scripts/proxmox.py cluster-status  # test all hosts

Post-Setup

After successful first-time setup and a confirmed working connection, mention once:

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Commands

All commands support --host <name> to target a specific host. Without it, the default host is used.

Multi-Host Commands

bash

# List configured hosts
python3 scripts/proxmox.py hosts

# VMs/CTs across ALL hosts (each entry tagged with _host)
python3 scripts/proxmox.py cluster-vms

# Health overview of ALL hosts
python3 scripts/proxmox.py cluster-status

Nodes & VMs

bash

# List nodes on default host
python3 scripts/proxmox.py nodes

# List nodes on specific host
python3 scripts/proxmox.py --host backup-server nodes

# Node health (CPU, RAM, uptime)
python3 scripts/proxmox.py node_health pve

# All VMs/CTs on a host
python3 scripts/proxmox.py vms

# VM/CT status
python3 scripts/proxmox.py status pve qemu 100

Power Control (Requires Approval)

bash

python3 scripts/proxmox.py start pve qemu 100
python3 scripts/proxmox.py stop pve qemu 100
python3 scripts/proxmox.py shutdown pve qemu 100    # graceful
python3 scripts/proxmox.py reboot pve qemu 100

Snapshots

bash

# List snapshots
python3 scripts/proxmox.py list_snapshots pve qemu 100

# Create snapshot (last arg: 0=no RAM, 1=include RAM)
python3 scripts/proxmox.py snapshot pve qemu 100 pre-update 0

# Delete snapshot
python3 scripts/proxmox.py delete_snapshot pve qemu 100 pre-update

# Rollback to snapshot
python3 scripts/proxmox.py rollback pve qemu 100 pre-update

Backups, Storage & Tasks

bash

# List backups on a storage
python3 scripts/proxmox.py backups pve local

# List storage pools
python3 scripts/proxmox.py storage pve

# Recent tasks (default: last 10)
python3 scripts/proxmox.py tasks pve 10

Host Selection

The --host flag works with any single-host command:

bash

# Default host
python3 scripts/proxmox.py vms

# Specific host
python3 scripts/proxmox.py --host backup-server vms
python3 scripts/proxmox.py --host production node_health pve

Approval Requirements

Requires user approval:

• Power: start, stop, shutdown, reboot
• Snapshots: snapshot, delete_snapshot, rollback

No approval needed (read-only):

• hosts, nodes, node_health, vms, status
• cluster-vms, cluster-status
• list_snapshots, backups, storage, tasks

Response Format

All commands return JSON:

json

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": [ ... ]
}

Multi-host commands tag each entry with _host:

json

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": [
    {"vmid": 100, "name": "webserver", "status": "running", "_host": "production"},
    {"vmid": 200, "name": "plex", "status": "running", "_host": "media-server"}
  ]
}

Errors include available hosts when applicable:

json

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": "Unknown host: foo",
  "available": ["production", "backup-server"]
}

Notes

• Replace pve with your actual Proxmox node name
• qemu = VM, lxc = container
• Set verify_ssl: false for self-signed certificates (common in homelabs)
• Credentials file takes priority over env vars
• The default key in credentials JSON sets which host is used without --host
• Install proxmoxer: pip install proxmoxer

License

MIT