ProxMox 3.3 Fresh Install - How to access Web Admin from different computer on LAN

[samsmox]

Hello,

I'm totally new to ProxMox and am trying to get my bearings. I installed it on my home network behind my ISP router. I'm having trouble accessing the Web Admin from a different computer on the same network.

Observations:

• As I understand it, ProxMox does not by default get a DHCP address.
• It does setup an IP address on a the vmbr0 interface with value of 192.168.100.2
• I'm able to ping itself locally at the 192.168.100.2 address on the ProxMox machine on the console.
• I'm able to successfully do a wget for https://192.168.100.2:8006 on the ProxMox machine on the console. I can see it complaining about the SSl certificate as expected.
• I am able to ping 192.168.100.2 from a different computer on my network fine.
• I'm unable to do a wget for https://192.168.100.2:8006 from the different computer on my network. It just hangs there.

How can I access the web admin?

• As far as I can tell, locally I can only access the web admin via the command line using wget. How would someone bring up a web browser etc. locally on the ProxMox machine to view the Web Admin?
• Then, there's the question of accessing it from a different computer on the network?

Thanks!

 

[nethfel]

Re: ProxMox 3.3 Fresh Install - How to access Web Admin from different computer on LA

Hello,

I'm totally new to ProxMox and am trying to get my bearings. I installed it on my home network behind my ISP router. I'm having trouble accessing the Web Admin from a different computer on the same network.

Observations:

• As I understand it, ProxMox does not by default get a DHCP address.
• It does setup an IP address on a the vmbr0 interface with value of 192.168.100.2
• I'm able to ping itself locally at the 192.168.100.2 address on the ProxMox machine on the console.

The IP address of the ProxMox install may default to that, but during the install process (assuming you installed from the ISO you could download from ProxMox as opposed to adding it to an existing running system) you have the option to change the IP address, netmask and gateway to match your network needs.

• I'm able to successfully do a wget for https://192.168.100.2:8006 on the ProxMox machine on the console. I can see it complaining about the SSl certificate as expected.
• I am able to ping 192.168.100.2 from a different computer on my network fine.
• I'm unable to do a wget for https://192.168.100.2:8006 from the different computer on my network. It just hangs there.

How can I access the web admin?

• As far as I can tell, locally I can only access the web admin via the command line using wget. How would someone bring up a web browser etc. locally on the ProxMox machine to view the Web Admin?
• Then, there's the question of accessing it from a different computer on the network?

Thanks!

You're not meant to access the web admin from the actual machine itself - it doesn't have a desktop environment, so no advanced web browser that would be able to render the web based gui. You're meant to access ProxMox through the web gui from a separate workstation AND/OR manipulate the ProxMox server via the command line (you would enter text commands to handle various operations instead of the pretty graphical interface; granted there are a few you need to handle through the command line like setting up the cluster...).

 

[m.ardito]

Re: ProxMox 3.3 Fresh Install - How to access Web Admin from different computer on LA

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You're not meant to access the web admin from the actual machine itself - it doesn't have a desktop environment, so no advanced web browser that would be able to render the web based gui. You're meant to access ProxMox through the web gui from a separate workstation AND/OR manipulate the ProxMox server via the command line (you would enter text commands to handle various operations instead of the pretty graphical interface; granted there are a few you need to handle through the command line like setting up the cluster...).

but you could install a desktop debian wheezy and then pve on top. it's not the default way, but is possible: see wiki for instructions.
but anyway from any othee lan pc you should be able to access pve web gui even on the pve headless node, via the internal web server.

Marco

 

[nethfel]

Re: ProxMox 3.3 Fresh Install - How to access Web Admin from different computer on LA

but you could install a desktop debian wheezy and then pve on top. it's not the default way, but is possible: see wiki for instructions.
but anyway from any othee lan pc you should be able to access pve web gui even on the pve headless node, via the internal web server.

Marco

True - kinda why I put the doesn't have a desktop environment statement Then again, I can't imagine a desktop environment on a proxmox node unless just testing since I'd imagine it would have a serious impact on performance... but it would work...

 

[samsmox]

Re: ProxMox 3.3 Fresh Install - How to access Web Admin from different computer on LA

Thank you for the help. Figured it all out!

True - kinda why I put the doesn't have a desktop environment statement Then again, I can't imagine a desktop environment on a proxmox node unless just testing since I'd imagine it would have a serious impact on performance... but it would work...

 

[samsmox]

Re: ProxMox 3.3 Fresh Install - How to access Web Admin from different computer on LA

Thanks! Figured it out.