Getting Proxmox to phone home with OpenVPN client

sapphiron

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Part of my business is doing IT infrastructure audits at client sites. This usually involves a manual inspection and dropping a box with spiceworks on it to monitor their network. That said I am using more and more Linux based diagnostic tools.

I am looking to make that audit box a proxmox host and to run my audit software as various virtual machines. That way:
1. I can revert to snapshots of a clean installation after each audit is complete
2. I only need to put one box down
3. I can provision new monitoring systems remotely.

The question I have is pertaining to remote access to the virtual host. most Clients wont forward firewall ports for external access, not can they supply me with VPN details.

What I thought I can do is to install an OpenVPN client on the remote host and have it "phone home" to my office. That way, I can manage the box remotely using the hosts VPN IP address. For clients who's firewalls dont block outgoing ports, it should work fine, and they shouldn't have a problem opening the outgoing port.

The question I have is, apart from installing the OpenVPN client on the host, what else would I need to configure in order to access the webgui and VNC connections on the box. Are there any things like a local firewall, or allowed network adapters settings?
 
you tried looking at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Configu...uster_running_over_a_private_OpenVPN_intranet

Might not be a 100% what your looking for but you could use some parts off it to setup prox as a Openvpn server on 10.x.x.x network fire up openvpn on you desktop and then you be on the network off you vm's i do this to mange my 3 node box.


my server only had 2 ip's (from the outside world) but i have a 20 vm's most off them just runs Vmbr13 that is a fake network or the local lan.
 

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