PROXMOX API ::: How to pass Authentication parameters

[phoneme]

Hi,

I am new to the proxmox API and would like to consume this feature to generate an alert when the VM in the Proxmox environment crosses a min thresh hold .
I am using the Python with requests library but dont know the correct way to pass on the authentication parameters while placing the GET requests.

---------------------------------------------- try.py ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
import requests
import urllib
import json
from datetime import datetime

r=requests.get("https://172.16.15.31:8006/api2/json/nodes/pve31/qemu/116/agent/network-get-interfaces",verify=False)
print(r)






Response
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root@pve1:~# python /etc/ansible/try.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:849: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings
InsecureRequestWarning)
<Response [401]>

Please suggest the proper way to pass the authentication parameters .

Regards

Anuj

 

[fabian]

you need to make a POST request to /access/ticket , which will return a ticket and a CSRF token. the ticket is set as cookie ('Cookie' header), the CSRF token as header. see our own Perl API client for an example: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-apic...88887907cdcbf57161a94bcfd5404e128;hb=HEAD#l73

you can also use API tokens if your PVE system is recent enough, those don't need a login/ticket but can just be passed as 'Authorization' header.

 

[CRCinAU]

you can also use API tokens if your PVE system is recent enough, those don't need a login/ticket but can just be passed as 'Authorization' header.

Do you have any details on this? I've been hunting for documentation with no success... I'd like to pass an API token instead of a username / password etc...

 

[fabian]

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#pveum_tokens

 

[fabian]

you can generate them via the GUI (or /access/user/{userid}/token/...) and pveum user token ...

 

[CRCinAU]

Ahhhh awesome - I did finally run across this - I just didn't quite understand what format I needed to pass the token in...

I've got this configured properly now and allows us to use our deployment scripting for images from https://vorteil.io

Now we can also do our normal shell scripts for running nodes and start / stop / shutdown and with a bit of our internal magic, update the KVM raw image file from our build system on the fly...