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Title : ProxBash - a bash script to manage Proxmox VE
Author : Remy van Elst
Date : 28-06-2012
URL : https://raymii.org/s/software/ProxBash.html
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Proxmox VE is a complete virtualization management solution for servers. You can
virtualize even the most demanding application workloads running on Linux and
Windows Servers. It is based on the leading Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
hypervisor and OpenVZ, the number one solution for container based
virtualization.

[Proxmox Website][1]

ProxMox VE is a very nice piece of software to setup a VM host very fast, which
also is easy manageable via a webinterface. It supports both OpenVZ and KVM. I
use it to manage a few VM's to test stuff on and it works really great.

However, I'm a command line lover, and I thought it would be nice to be able to
"Manage" Proxmox VE from a bash shell. And I've written a script to do just
that.

proxbash.sh is a bash script to manage your Proxmox VE server.

Check out my other [Proxmox/OpenVZ related articles][2].

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##### Features

* Add OpenVZ containers
* Remove OpenVZ containers
* Start / Stop OpenVZ containers
* List all OpenVZ containers and KVM virtual machines
* Shell dropper into OpenVZ containers
* Command execution in openvz containers

As you can see there is a lot of OpenVZ and not a lot of KVM. Most of the VM's I
use are OpenVZ, so for the KVM things you need to use the webinterface.

##### Download

[Click here to download the script][4]

Or use this:

wget https://raymii.org/s/inc/software/proxbash.sh; chmod +x ./proxbash.sh; ./proxbash.sh

##### Usage

Before you start, edit the script variables:

VAR_PROXMOXHOST="192.168.0.25" #proxmox server IP
VAR_PROXMOXSSH="22" #proxmox ssh port
VAR_PROXMOXUSER="root" #proxmox ssh user
VAR_PROXMOX_NODE="proxmox" #proxmox cluster node name

and set up passwordless key auth to the proxmox node. If you don't do that, you
have to enter the proxmox root password every time.

**Also edit the case statement for the templates. Default it has ubuntu 10.04
and 12.04 and centos 5 and 6.**

Replace $CTID with an openvz ct id. (like 103, 104)

###### Create a CT

proxbash.sh createct node-hostname node-password node-template node-ram node-disk node-ip
proxbash.sh createct prod001 supersecret1 ubuntu12 1024 15 172.20.5.48

proxbash.sh createct node-hostname node-password node-template node-ram node-
disk node-ip $CTID

###### Start/Stop a CT

./proxbash.sh startct
./proxbash.sh startct $CTID

./proxbash.sh stopct
./proxbash.sh stopct $CTID

###### Remove a CT

./proxbash.sh deletect
./proxbash.sh deletect $CTID

###### Shell dropper

./proxbash.sh shelldrop $CTID

###### Execute commands in CT

./proxbash.sh execinct $CTID "commands you -want -to; execute; in the ../ct"

###### List CTs/VMs

./proxbash.sh listcts
./proxbash.sh listvms

###### Get CT info

./proxbash.sh ctinfo
./proxbash.sh ctinfo $CTID

##### Notes

If you like it or use it, please leave a comment.

[1]: http://www.proxmox.com/products/proxmox-ve/
[2]: https://raymii.org/s/tags/openvz.html
[3]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212
[4]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/software/proxbash.sh

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