NOTE: Although the Proxbox plugin is in development, it only use GET requests and there is no risk to harm your Proxmox environment by changing things incorrectly.
Netbox plugin which integrates Proxmox and Netbox using proxmoxer and pynetbox.
It is currently able to get the following information from Proxmox:
- Cluster name
- Nodes:
- Status (online / offline)
- Name
- Virtual Machines and Containers:
- Status (online / offline)
- Name
- ID
- CPU
- Disk
- Memory
- Node (Server)
The following table shows the Netbox and Proxmox versions compatible (tested) with Proxbox plugin.
netbox version | proxmox version | proxbox version |
---|---|---|
>= 2.10.9 | >= v6.2.0 | v0.0.3 |
- 1.1. Install package
- 1.2. Enable the Plugin
- 1.3. Configure Plugin
- 1.4. Run Database Migrations
- 1.5 Restart WSGI Service
The instructions below detail the process for installing and enabling Proxbox plugin. The plugin is available as a Python package in pypi and can be installed with pip.
Enter Netbox's virtual environment.
source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
Install the plugin package.
(venv) $ pip install netbox-proxbox
OBS: This method is recommend for testing and development purposes and is not for production use.
Move to netbox main folder
cd /opt/netbox/netbox
Clone netbox-proxbox repository
git clone https://github.com/N-Multifibra/netbox-proxbox.git
Install netbox-proxbox
cd netbox-proxbox
source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
python3 setup.py develop
Enable the plugin in /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/configuration.py:
PLUGINS = ['netbox_proxbox']
The plugin's configuration is also located in /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/configuration.py:
Replace the values with your own following the Configuration Parameters section.
OBS: You do not need to configure all the parameters, only the one's different from the default values. It means that if you have some value equal to the one below, you can skip its configuration.
PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
'netbox_proxbox': {
'proxmox': {
'domain': 'proxbox.example.com', # May also be IP address
'http_port': 8006,
'user': 'root@pam',
'password': 'Strong@P4ssword',
'token': {
'name': 'tokenID', # Only type the token name and not the 'user@pam:tokenID' format
'value': '039az154-23b2-4be0-8d20-b66abc8c4686'
},
'ssl': False
},
'netbox': {
'domain': 'netbox.example.com', # May also be IP address
'http_port': 80,
'token': '0dd7cddfaee3b38bbffbd2937d44c4a03f9c9d38',
'ssl': False, # There is no support to SSL on Netbox yet, so let it always False.
'settings': {
'virtualmachine_role_id' : 0,
'node_role_id' : 0,
'site_id': 0
}
}
}
(venv) $ cd /opt/netbox/netbox/
(venv) $ python3 manage.py migrate
Restart the WSGI service to load the new plugin:
# sudo systemctl restart netbox
The following options are available:
-
proxmox
: (Dict) Proxmox related configuration to use proxmoxer. -
proxmox.domain
: (String) Domain or IP address of Proxmox. -
proxmox.http_port
: (Integer) Proxmox HTTP port (default: 8006). -
proxmox.user
: (String) Proxmox Username. -
proxmox.password
: (String) Proxmox Password. -
proxmox.token
: (Dict) Contains Proxmox TokenID (name) and Token Value (value). -
proxmox.token.name
: (String) Proxmox TokenID. -
proxmox.token.value
: (String) Proxmox Token Value. -
proxmox.ssl
: (Bool) Defines the use of SSL (default: False). -
netbox
: (Dict) Netbox related configuration to use pynetbox. -
netbox.domain
: (String) Domain or IP address of Netbox. -
netbox.http_port
: (Integer) Netbox HTTP PORT (default: 80). -
netbox.token
: (String) Netbox Token Value. -
netbox.ssl
: (Bool) Defines the use of SSL (default: False). - Proxbox doesn't support SSL on Netbox yet. -
netbox.settings
: (Dict) Default items of Netbox to be used by Proxbox.- If not configured, Proxbox will automatically create a basic configuration to make it work.
- The ID of each item can be easily found on the URL of the item you want to use.
-
netbox.settings.virtualmachine_role_id
: (Integer) Role ID to be used by Proxbox when creating Virtual Machines -
netbox.settings.node_role_id
: (Integer) Role ID to be used by Proxbox when creating Nodes (Devices) -
netbox.settings.site_id
(Integer) Site ID to be used by Proxbox when creating Nodes (Devices)
To get Proxmox ID, Node and Type information, is necessary to configure Custom Fields. Below the parameters needed to make it work:
Required values (must be equal)
- [Custom Field] Type: Integer
- [Custom Field] Name: proxmox_id
- [Assignment] Content-type: Virtualization > virtual machine
- [Validation Rules] Minimum value: 0
Optional values (may be different)
- [Custom Field] Label: [Proxmox] ID
- [Custom Field] Description: Proxmox VM/CT ID
Required values (must be equal)
- [Custom Field] Type: Text
- [Custom Field] Name: proxmox_node
- [Assignment] Content-type: Virtualization > virtual machine
Optional values (may be different)
- [Custom Field] Label: [Proxmox] Node
- [Custom Field] Description: Proxmox Node (Server)
Required values (must be equal)
- [Custom Field] Type: Selection
- [Custom Field] Name: proxmox_type
- [Assignment] Content-type: Virtualization > virtual machine
- [Choices] Choices: qemu,lxc
Optional values (may be different)
- [Custom Field] Label: [Proxmox] Type
- [Custom Field] Description: Proxmox type (VM or CT)
If everything is working correctly, you should see in Netbox's navigation the Proxmox VM/CT button in Plugins dropdown list.
On Proxmox VM/CT page, click button
It will redirect you to a new page and you just have to wait until the plugin runs through all Proxmox Cluster and create the VMs and CTs in Netbox.
OBS: Due the time it takes to full update the information, your web brouse might show a timeout page (like HTTP Code 504) even though it actually worked.
Developing tools for this project based on ntc-netbox-plugin-onboarding repo.
Issues and pull requests are welcomed.
- Start using custom models to optimize the use of the Plugin and stop using 'Custom Fields'
- Automatically remove Nodes on Netbox when removed on Promox (as it already happens with Virutal Machines and Containers)
- Add individual update of VM/CT's and Nodes (currently is only possible to update all at once)
- Add periodic update of the whole environment so that the user does not need to manually click the update button.
- Create virtual machines and containers directly on Netbox, having no need to access Proxmox.
- Add 'Console' button to enable console access to virtual machines