Proxmox VE API

Note: Article about Proxmox VE 2.0 beta

Introduction

http://pve.proxmox.com/pve2-api-doc/

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We will use the 'curl' command line tool for all examples.

Authentification

PVE uses a Token Based Authentication. All request to the API need to include that token inside a Cookie. We usually call that token a 'ticket'.

Additionally, any write request must include a CSRF prevention token inside the HTTP header.

Example: get a new ticket and the CSRF prevention token

# curl -k -d "username=root@pam&password=yourpassword"  https://10.0.0.1:8006/api2/json/access/ticket 
{ "data": { 
  "CSRFPreventionToken":"4EEC61E2:lwk7od06fa1+DcPUwBTXCcndyAY",  
  "ticket":"PVE:root@pam:4EEC61E2::rsKoApxDTLYPn6H3NNT6iP2mv...", 
  "username":"root@pam"}
}

You need to pass the returned ticket with a cookie to any further request:

curl -k -b "PVEAuthCookie=PVE:root@pam:4EEC61E2::rsKoApxDTLYPn6H3NNT6iP2mv..." https://10.0.0.1:8006/api2/json/

Additionally, any write request (POST, PUT, DELETE) must include the CSRFPreventionToken header:

curl -XDELETE -H "CSRFPreventionToken: 4EEC61E2:lwk7od06fa1+DcPUwBTXCcndyAY" ...