Command line tools - PVE 3.x

Introduction

This page lists the important Proxmox VE and Debian command line tools. All CLI tools have also manual pages.

OpenVZ specific

user_beancounters

cat /proc/user_beancounters

Cluster management

pveca

USAGE: (man page)

• pveca -l # show cluster status
• pveca -c # create new cluster with localhost as master
• pveca -s [-h IP] # sync cluster configuration from master (or IP)
• pveca -d ID # delete a node
• pveca -a [-h IP] # add new node to cluster
• pveca -m # force local node to become master
• pveca -i # print node info (CID NAME IP ROLE)

Software version check

pveversion

Proxmox VE version info - Print version information for Proxmox VE packages.

USAGE: pveversion [--verbose]

• without any argument shows the version of pve-manager, something like:

pve-manager/1.5/4660

• with -v argument it shows a list of programs versions related to pve, like:

pve-manager: 1.5-7 (pve-manager/1.5/4660)

running kernel: 2.6.18-2-pve

proxmox-ve-2.6.18: 1.5-5

pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5

pve-kernel-2.6.18-1-pve: 2.6.18-4

qemu-server: 1.1-11

pve-firmware: 1.0-3

libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-10

vncterm: 0.9-2

vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve8

vzdump: 1.2-5

vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2

vzquota: 3.0.11-1

pve-qemu-kvm-2.6.18: 0.9.1-5

aptitude

Standard Debian package update tool

DRBD

See DRBD

Debian Appliance Builder

dab

See Debian_Appliance_Builder

Other useful tools

pveperf

Simple host performance test.