Proxmox VE by HTTP - How to create a host for monitoring a Proxmox cluster

[wyang]

Hello,

I have Zabbix 6.0 LTS installed and would like to monitor a Proxmox cluster using the template Proxmox VE by HTTP.

A user and an API token with Privilege Separation unchecked for the user have been created, and the user has been assigned the PVEAuditor role for path "/". API calls, like curl -H "Authorization: PVEAPIToken=<user>=<API token>" https://<FQDN of a node>:8006/api2/json//nodes, work well.

I create a host on Zabbix frontend

• Host name: FQDN of a node in the Proxmox cluster
• Host macros for {$PVE.TOKEN.ID} and {$PVE.TOKEN.SECRET}

However, alert Proxmox: API service not available is triggered for the host. I was wondering what are missing for monitoring a Proxmox cluster. Any advice? Thanks!

[wyang]

Looking forward to hearing from you. Any advice would be much appreciated!!!

[wyang]

Looking forward to hearing from you. Any advice would be much appreciated!!!

[wyang]

For another Proxmox cluster, I did similar configs. No luck. It looks a piece is missing in my config that zabbix alert API service not available is triggered on hosts of the Proxmox clusters.

Any advice would be much appreciated!!!

[wyang]

Found the root cause: although neither Zabbix agent nor SNMPd installed on Proxmox hosts, configuring a Zabbix host to monitor a Proxmox cluster still need adding an interface for the host, which will enable Zabbix getting value for the macro {HOST.CONN}