Applications/infra/proxmox-api.md

Proxmox API Authentication

Create an API Token on Proxmox

To create a new API Token for your user in Proxmox, follow these steps:

1. Open the Proxmox Web UI and navigate to the 'Datacenter' in the 'Server View' menu.
2. Select 'API Token' in the 'Permissions' menu.
3. Click on 'Add'.
4. Select the user, and add a 'Token ID'.
5. (Optional) Disable Privilege Separation, and set an Expire date.
6. Click on 'Add'.

Check the API Token

To test the API Token, you can use the following command:

curl -H "Authorization: PVEAPIToken=root@pam!monitoring=aaaaaaaaa-bbb-cccc-dddd-ef0123456789" https://your-proxmox-url:8006/api2/json/