Authentification to Proxmox VE with API

[Valentin1993]

Hello guys,

I'm trying to use Proxmox API in order to manage my nodes cluster from another server.
I read the Proxmox VE wiki but I'm getting an issue with authentification part of Proxmox API.

I'm using proxmoxer and Python.

I wrote this :

#!/usr/bin/python3

from proxmoxer import ProxmoxAPI

def proxmox_authentification () :
proxmox = ProxmoxAPI('172.30.10.140', user='root@pam', password='xxxxx', verify_ssl=False)
return proxmox

for node in proxmox.nodes.get():
for vm in proxmox.nodes(node['node']).openvz.get():
print "{0}. {1} => {2}" .format(vm['vmid'], vm['name'], vm['status'])

But I got this issue :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "extinction.py", line 5, in <module>
proxmox = ProxmoxAPI('172.30.10.140', user='root', password='xxxxx', verify_ssl=False)
File "/Users/valentinjungbluth/Desktop/DatasystemsCORE3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 106, in __init__
self._backend = importlib.import_module('.backends.%s' % backend, 'proxmoxer').Backend(host, **kwargs)
File "/Users/valentinjungbluth/Desktop/DatasystemsCORE3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/proxmoxer/backends/https.py", line 116, in __init__
self.auth = ProxmoxHTTPAuth(self.base_url, user, password, verify_ssl)
File "/Users/valentinjungbluth/Desktop/DatasystemsCORE3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/proxmoxer/backends/https.py", line 46, in __init__
raise AuthenticationError("Couldn't authenticate user: {0} to {1}".format(username, base_url + "/access/ticket"))
proxmoxer.backends.https.AuthenticationError: Couldn't authenticate user: root to https://172.30.10.140:8006/api2/json/access/ticket

Did I miss something ? Thank you so much !

 

[dcsapak]

aside from the fact that your script says python3 but is a python2 script,
it works here without problems. maybe the password you entered is wrong?

edit:

oh and using openvz will also only work for proxmox ve <=3.4

 

[Valentin1993]

It's pretty weird because even if I use Python 2.7, the same script doesn't work with the same authenticate error.

from proxmoxer import ProxmoxAPI

def proxmox_authentification () :
proxmox = ProxmoxAPI(host="172.30.10.140", user="root@pam", password="xxxxx", verify_ssl=False)
return proxmox

The password is correct, the username and the host too.

 

[Valentin1993]

#! /usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8

from proxmoxer import ProxmoxAPI

proxmox = ProxmoxAPI(host="172.30.10.140", user="root@pam", password="xxxxxx", verify_ssl=False)

It seems to work. By what I could replace openvz if I use Proxmox version > 3.4 ?

 

[dcsapak]

we use lxc since 4.0

 

[Valentin1993]

Anyway all Python solutions could not work because proxmoxer and al. are developped for proxmox 2.x. So they have all openvz and not lxc implemented. True ?

Finally the best way will be to use pvecm or Curl ?

 

[dcsapak]

proxmoxer works with lxc here..

Finally the best way will be to use pvecm or Curl ?

i guess you mean pvesh?

curl could work but is not really nice,
but we have an api client written in perl

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-apiclient.git;a=summary