Search field (generally)

[naseem]

Good Morning,

is it possible to find vm´s with ip addess or mac?
Currently it is not possible to find these parameters.

Maybe someone has an idea.

Thanks.

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

what is considered in the search is everything that is shown in the table when you click the search field. About IPs/MACs specifically, VMs may have multiple of both, or we may not know the IP at(depending on weather there's a guest agent in the VM running). So the extra column would either be empty or overfilled, so not super sure how useful that would end up being. But, if you have a use-case feel free to open a feature request over at Bugzilla[1], that's where we keep track of those things. And if there's enough people finding this useful, we may consider implementing it.

[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/

 

[naseem]

Hello Hannes,

i understand the concern about the empty table.
However, many migrants from VMware are used to finding such a VM. If no IP address is found, regardless of the agent, the result "No result" can be displayed. I don't want to open an account with Bugzilla. Thanks anyway!

 

[kosnar]

Hi naseem,

In GUI this is not possible. You can write a script for this like this one:

#!/bin/bash

# Function to display usage information
usage() {
    echo "Usage: $0 <IP_address> | <MAC_address>"
    echo "  <IP_address>    - IPv4 address of the VM"
    echo "  <MAC_address>   - MAC address of the VM (e.g., 00:1A:2B:3C:4D:5E)"
    exit 1
}

# Check if any arguments are provided
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
    echo "Error: Missing argument."
    usage
fi

# Check if the argument is an IPv4 address
if [[ "$1" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
    IP="$1"
    echo -n "Looking for VM with IP $IP... "

    # Ping the IP to check if it's reachable and valid
    ping -c1 "$IP" > /dev/null 2>&1
    if [[ "$?" -ne 0 ]]; then
        echo "Error: IP address is not reachable or valid."
        exit 1
    fi

    # Find the MAC address from the ARP table
    MAC=$(arp -n | grep -E "^$IP[^0-9]" | awk '{print $3}')

    if [[ -z "$MAC" ]]; then
        echo "Error: MAC address not found for IP $IP."
        exit 1
    fi

    echo "Found MAC: $MAC"

# Check if the argument is a MAC address
elif [[ "$1" =~ ^([0-9A-Fa-f]{2}:){5}[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}$ ]]; then
    MAC="$1"
    echo "Using provided MAC address: $MAC"

else
    echo "Error: Invalid input. Please provide a valid IPv4 or MAC address."
    usage
fi

echo "---"
echo "Found VMs:"

# Find VMs by MAC address
VMS=$(grep -i "$MAC" -R /etc/pve/ | grep -oE "/[0-9]+\.conf" | grep -oE "[0-9]+" | sort -u)

if [[ -z "$VMS" ]]; then
    echo "Error: No VMs found for MAC address $MAC."
    exit 1
fi

echo "$VMS"

 

[naseem]

Thank you kosnar.

Regards
Daniel Naseem