Proxmox No Subscription Nag

If you use the GUI a lot, you might get frustrated to click the ok on this notification. For me, it hasn't been a problem until recently. I have been working in GUIs for the past week doing a ton of tests, upgrades, and tuning. The way Proxmox do it is vulgar, I prefer the polite way Portainer and others do it, just a remainder somewhere on the page, it can be in bright colors or not, but it does not interfere with your work. If I could afford I would get a basic license but having 9 servers, most with 2 CPUs, it's too expensive for a retired person.

I love free software and consider it as free advice — not free beer 🍺. Supporting any FOSS project is very important,
– I do contribute when I can or
– give them a star ⭐ or
– make some monetary contribution.
In my humble opinion – if we only consume and not contribute it will kill the free and open movement.

Prerequisites and Recommendations

Use the No-subscription repo. I recommend to use SSH, but you can use the console from the GUI.
It's recommended to have your SSH-keys on the server. Replace id_ed25519.pub with your public SSH key for the server.
Using the SSH config and agent will make your life easier.

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub <Address of Server>

Edit the SSH-config file in your .ssh folder add a server like this

Host pve-100
  HostName pve-100.example.com
  User theboss
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/pve100

Start the SSH agent

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

Add your key to the SSH agent by

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Warnings and Notes

⚖️ Using this in a commercial environment may be illegal in your country
ℹ️ This modification is reversible by removing the edit
ℹ️ Should work on PVE/PBS. It's tested OK on, PVE 5.1 – 9.0 and PBS 2.1 – 4.0

⚠️ When you update Proxmox, you might need to redo this modification
⚠️ This modification will probably break the GUI Updates page notifications

• A “No updates available.” message all time, even if there is one
• Do updates over SSH by apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y 👈

Do the Modification

The Manual Editing of proxmoxlib.js

1. Change to the right directory and make a backup

cd /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit

cp proxmoxlib.js proxmoxlib.js.orig

2. Edit the file nano proxmoxlib.js and locate the code (ctrl+w to search for “No valid subscription”)

nano proxmoxlib.js

3. Replace text to look like this (insert void({ // at the beginning of the line)

Ext.Msg.show({
  title: gettext('No valid subscription'),

void({ //Ext.Msg.show({
  title: gettext('No valid subscription'),

4. Restart the Proxmox web service

systemctl restart pveproxy.service

systemctl restart proxmox-backup-proxy.service

Check in a private window if it works, or clear your browser cache, depending on the browser you may need to open a new tab or restart the browser.

Using the sed -command

This is combined into a sed command to change line 617:

sed -i.bak 's/Ext\.Msg\.show(/\/\/ Ext.Msg.show(/' /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service 

sed -i.bak 's/Ext\.Msg\.show(/\/\/ Ext.Msg.show(/' /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart proxmox/backup/proxy.service 

This command:

• Creates a backup (proxmoxlib.js.bak)
• Targets the line where the subscription dialog appears
• Simply comments out the Ext.Msg.show( call by adding // at the beginning
• Then restarted the service proxmox-backup-proxy.service

Revert the Modification

By editing the file

Edit the file to undo the changes you made, void({ //

nano /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js 

Restore the backup file you created

mv /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js.orig /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js

Reinstall the toolkit from the repository

apt-get install --reinstall proxmox-widget-toolkit

GitHub - Jamesits/pve-fake-subscription: Disables the “No valid subscription” dialog on all Proxmox products.

Disables the “No valid subscription” dialog on all Proxmox products. - Jamesits/pve-fake-subscription

GitHubJamesits

Another way

First ssh into the node as root.

You need to edit the file one proxmoxlib.js.

nano /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js

Search for the function responsible for the subscription status. In nano, you can press Ctrl + W to open the search function and search for NoValidSubscription.

if (res === null || res === undefined || !res || res.data.status.toLowerCase() !== 'active') {
    Ext.Msg.show({
        title: gettext('No valid subscription'),
        icon: Ext.Msg.WARNING,
        message: Proxmox.Utils.getNoSubKeyHtml(res.data.url),
        buttons: Ext.Msg.OK,
        callback: function(btn) {
            if (btn === 'ok') {
                console.debug('User acknowledged no subscription message');
            }
        }
    });
}

Comment out the code that displays the nag screen, use //.

// if (res === null || res === undefined || !res || res.data.status.toLowerCase() !== 'active') {
//    Ext.Msg.show({
//        title: gettext('No valid subscription'),
//        icon: Ext.Msg.WARNING,
//        message: Proxmox.Utils.getNoSubKeyHtml(res.data.url),
//        buttons: Ext.Msg.OK,
//        callback: function(btn) {
//            if (btn === 'ok') {
//                console.debug('User acknowledged no subscription message');
//            }
//        }
//    });
// }