Proxmox Datacenter Manager

PDM is a perfect dashboard for our Proxmox setup. Perfect for a home lab, but It's still in ALPHA, so do not rely on it for production.

Proxmox Datacenter Manager

Download the ISO file from the current downloads here

Create VM 1 core, 1M RAM and a 16G disk and install it.

Setup

Start by going to Administration and upgrade to the latest

Prepare the node for PDM

The following is recommendations only. PDM will create a standard token.

If you already added an admin user to be used instead of root, do it now.

Add an API Token for use with PDM. You could use one you have, but it's better to create a new one and set the expiry date, shorter is better.

Add your hosts/Clusters

Now we shall add our stand-a-lone hosts and/or clusters to the PDM by hitting Add Proxmox VE

Add remote

Go to Remotes and Add your cluster using a FQDN or an IP-address

Copy the SSL Fingerprint from your nodes from node → System → Certificates pveproxy-ssl.pem or pve-ssl.pem

Hit Connect and wait for success, Connection OK, hit Next.

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If outdated or wrong IPs, I had to do
pvecm updatecerts -F && systemctl restart pvedaemon pveproxy

Add Settings

Then go to Settings and write the following:

  • Remote-ID: PVE1 (nickname of a node or a cluster).
  • Username: root or better is to use a have another admin account for it
  • Password: a long and complicated one
  • Realm: pam/pve
  • API Token name

Hit scan and wait for success, Scan OK, and hit Next.

Endpoints

For a cluster, you will see all Hostnames and Fingerprints. Check and hit Next.

Summary

A summary is shown and if all is good, hit Finish

References

PDM [1]


  1. PDM wiki ↩ī¸Ž