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Tag: ProxmoxHow to run OpenVPN in LXC Proxmox
I run a number of small Proxmox installations on a mixture of old and new PC hardware at various location and I needed a secure way to access them and transfer data between VM’s and containers which run on them. Given the limited resources on some, I wanted to run OpenVPN in LXC rather than […]
Read PostHow to add network routes to Proxmox NetPlan
I run a strange network topology with various VLANs and VPNs at home, in remote locations and in the cloud. Because of this, I needed to add routes to the NetPlan configuration file. In order to manually edit the interfaces file, first copy it: The file will contain the configuration for all interfaces configured via […]
Read PostHow to disable TFA from the CLI on Proxmox
This took me hours and hours of research to work out how to disable lost TFA on an account on Proxmox. I was only experimenting on a test server, however I wanted to ensure I knew how to recover it if I enabled TFA on my root user. Console access isn’t subject to this additional […]
Read PostIncorrect LXC monitoring values with Zabbix
Zabbix is by far the best monitoring solution available however when I moved from Hyper-V 2016 to Proxmox and LXC, I noticed that the standard Linux templates pulled incorrect values for CPU, RAM and Disk usage. Given the way LXC works, the values were actually the hosts. I did some Googling and found an excellent […]
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