Proxmox Toolbox

Toolbox to setup Proxmox Virtual Environment and Backup Server

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Informations:

This little tool aim to get smalls one-time configurations for Proxmox Virtual environement and backup server hosts in no time.
It automatically will find if the host is a pve or a pbs host and setup accordingly.

Demonstration:

You can watch a demonstration of the tool in this playlist

Prerequisits:

• Up-to-date PVE 7 / 8 or PBS server
• Internet connexion

Features are:

• Automatic PVE / PBS host detection
• Hide enterprise repo and set no-subscription repository
• Update host and create a new command "proxmox-update"
• • when no-enterprise source is set, disable no-subscription message
• Install usefull dependencies: ifupdown2 - git - sudo - libsasl2-modules - snmp
• Security settings:
• • Enable fail 2 ban with default configuration for sshd, proxmox virtual environement and backup server
    (credits to inettgmbh)
• • Create another debian user with sudo rights
• • Disable root ssh login
• • Create another Proxmox GUI administrator (login with Proxmox VE Realm)
• • Disabling root@pam user !!! root@pam is needed to update from GUI - update can still be done trough SSH if disabled !!!
• Change or disable SWAP
• Enable S.M.A.R.T self-tests on all supported drives
• • short: every sunday@22 - Long: every 1st of month @22
• Enable SNMP V2 or v3 - you choose - with a default working configuration
• Backup and restore Proxmox Virtual Environment and Backup Server configuration
• • Automatic remount of directories and zpools using previously existing configurations
• • Please find more informations below

Legacy hidden function:

• Configure email service to send system and proxmox notifications (postfix)

News

2023.11.24: Proxmox 8.1 - Emails Notifications - Proxmox VE now supports email configurations very well from the GUI, the toolbox wont get any update related to this function anymore.

Usage and arguments:

Get and execute:

wget -qO proxmox_toolbox.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tontonjo/proxmox_toolbox/main/proxmox_toolbox.sh && bash proxmox_toolbox.sh

Updating host & remove subscription message

The script will update your host and detect if the no-enterprise source is configured, if so, remove the subscription message.

• If you still encounter it after, clear your broswer cache.
• If you update your host directly within the system, the no subscribtion message may reappear when the file gets updated.
• In order to nerver see this again, you have to update Proxmox with one of the following options:

To start an update only, without menu or prompt:

bash proxmox_toolbox.sh -u

Once the tool has been used to update host, you can execute this command to fully update your host - kind of an alias of bash proxmox_toolbox.sh -u

proxmox-update

Backup configuration

To start a configuration backup only:

bash proxmox_toolbox.sh -b

Fail2ban:

If you enable fail2ban, i guess you know what you're doing, if you dont: here's some usefull informations and commands:

• ban are for 1 hour
• ssh and web interface logins are monitored

List of $jailname:

fail2ban-client status

get status of a jails - display banned IP's

fail2ban-client status $jailname

Unband an IP:

fail2ban-client set $jailname unbanip  $ipaddress

Backup and Restoration:

• Be carefull as this was not extensively tested - especially not with cluster configurations
• The following folders and configurations are backuped by default:
  /etc/ssh/sshd_config /root/.ssh/ /etc/fail2ban/ /etc/systemd/system/*.mount /etc/network/interfaces /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts /etc/hostname /etc/cron* /etc/aliases /etc/snmp/ /etc/smartd.conf /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/postfix/ /etc/pve/ /etc/lvm/ /etc/modprobe.d/ /var/lib/pve-firewall/ /var/lib/pve-cluster/ /etc/vzdump.conf /etc/ksmtuned.conf /etc/proxmox-backup/

Backup

The script will put every folder listed in backup_content in a tar.gz archive.

• You cand add /remove folder trough the edit of backup_content= line in the script
• You can change the target folder to use for backup and restoration in the script env. variables at: backupdir="/root/"

Once the backup is done, a tar.gz archive is located at backupdir="/root/".

Restauration:

The script looks for tar.gz files located in backupdir="/root/" and will list all the available archives for you to choose one.
Warning: The restauration will overwrite any existing file with the one in archive

The restauration process will:

• Reinstall missing dependencies for snmp and fail2ban if config were existing
• Restore Proxmox configurations (proxmox configs, certificates, vm configs, storages configs, proxmox users)
• Automatically remount the following storages: dir and zpools

Directory mountpoint and zpool

In case of need, here's how you can manually mount storages:

Directory:

Mount configurations are located in /etc/systemd/system/mnt-datastore-$datastorename.mount

• run the following commands:

source /etc/systemd/system/mnt-datastore-$datastorename.mount  
mkdir -p "$Where"
echo "$What $Where $Type $Options 0 2" >> /etc/fstab  
mount -a

• Control if the drives are now correctly mounted
• Add a new Directory storage in pve/pbs using "where" as directory path

Zpool:

• run

zpool import

• Take note of the "pool" name and run

zpool import -f $poolname

• Add a new ZFS storage in pve/pbs

SOURCES:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Fail2ban
https://github.com/inettgmbh/fail2ban-proxmox-backup-server
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-do-i-set-the-mail-server-to-be-used-in-proxmox.23669/
https://linuxscriptshub.com/configure-smtp-with-gmail-using-postfix/
https://suoption_pickedpport.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/solved-problem-with-outgoing-mail-from-server.53920/
http://mhawthorne.net/posts/2011-postfix-configuring-gmail-as-relay/
https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/cloud-at-customer/occ-get-started/add-ssh-enabled-user.html
https://www.noobunbox.net/serveur/monitoring/configurer-snmp-v3-sous-debian
https://github.com/DeadlockState/Proxmox-prepare
https://blog.lbdg.me/proxmox-best-performance-disable-swappiness/
https://gist.github.com/mrpeardotnet/6bdc4b504f43ce57fa7eaee96d376edf
https://github.com/DerDanilo/proxmox-stuff/blob/master/prox_config_backup.sh
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0
https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
https://www.linuxtricks.fr/wiki/proxmox-quelques-infos
https://bobcares.com/blog/fail2ban-unban-ip/

TODO:

settings for zram -> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Zram
PBS: add support for user creation and backup / restoration user creation fro PBS when available
make things stupid-proof (deny characters when numbers expected and so on)

Tonton Jo - 2022