How to autostart Proxmox?

[sevenman]

Hi,
i have two proxmox servers, one is always on. one is off.
i need to turn on automatically at 11 am every day the server which is off.


i don't find any functions for that. I'm, not a programmer or coder. trying to move from esxi.

Thank you very much.

 

[Vladimir Bulgaru]

Hi,
i have two proxmox servers, one is always on. one is off.
i need to turn on automatically at 11 am every day the server which is off.


i don't find any functions for that. I'm, not a programmer or coder. trying to move from esxi.

Thank you very much.

Hey!

Usually it's done via the server bios rather than OS.
Check the BIOS settings and see what boot options you have.
You may need to set wake-on-lan or something akin to that.

 

[sevenman]

Thank you for the replay,
my motherboard is MSI. it does have 'RTC alarm' option.
but it doesn't work. I don't know why. I have tried it in two MSI pc. It just doesn't work.
I have read some of their documents and try to figure out how it really works.
Until then I need to os based start. MSI motherboards supports that feature.

The last thing. also, is there a way of auto-shutdown proxmox?

 

[Vladimir Bulgaru]

Thank you for the replay,
my motherboard is MSI. it does have 'RTC alarm' option.
but it doesn't work. I don't know why. I have tried it in two MSI pc. It just doesn't work.
I have read some of their documents and try to figure out how it really works.
Until then I need to os based start. MSI motherboards supports that feature.

The last thing. also, is there a way of auto-shutdown proxmox?

Autoshutdown is easily done via cron.
But i'm pretty sure you cannot to autostart via OS.
You probably need to look into wake-on-lan feature.

 

[sevenman]

Autoshutdown is easily done via cron.
But i'm pretty sure you cannot to autostart via OS.
You probably need to look into wake-on-lan feature.

Thank you very much for your replay. it's appreciated.
my "RTC Alarm" works now.
RTC Alarm works in the S1 state. not S3!
generally when a pc shutdown it goes to S3 state. I need to change this to S1 by going into ACPI settings in the bios.
Also, one of the MSI documentation I have found that after turning on the "RTC alam" its needs a pure booting to OS and pure shutdown by OS.
NOW my one is working properly.

now, is there a GUI to using cron to autoshutdown proxmox?
or there is some codes or something. can you please help me on that?

Thank you very much.

 

[Vladimir Bulgaru]

Thank you very much for your replay. it's appreciated.
my "RTC Alarm" works now.
RTC Alarm works in the S1 state. not S3!
generally when a pc shutdown it goes to S3 state. I need to change this to S1 by going into ACPI settings in the bios.
Also, one of the MSI documentation I have found that after turning on the "RTC alam" its needs a pure booting to OS and pure shutdown by OS.
NOW my one is working properly.

now, is there a GUI to using cron to autoshutdown proxmox?
or there is some codes or something. can you please help me on that?

Thank you very much.

From the console type:
crontab -e

In the editor, add the following line:
0 0 * * 7 shutdown -t 0

This is an example. In cron the first 5 digits is the schedule for when the command is executed and in the example above - it will shut the server down on midnight between Sat and Sun. You can read more about cron here: https://opensource.com/article/17/11/how-use-cron-linux

Good luck!