FROM INSTALL TO INSIGHT: LIVE
PROXMOX MONITORING WITH
OPENITCOCKPIT
OSMC 2025 | Daniel Ziegler
AGENDA
1. Who am I
2. Setup live demo
3. What is openITCOCKPT
4. Monitor a Proxmox Virtual Environment
5. Monitor a volunteer from the audience
WHO AM I
PROFILE PROJECTS I'M INVOLVED IN
DANIEL ZIEGLER
Senior Software Engineer
• openITCOCKPIT
• Statusengine
• Naemon
• Developer
• Monitoring shenanigans since 2010
SETUP LIVE DEMO
openITCOCKPIT @ALLGEIER ITS
• We joined Allgeier IT Services this summer
• From it-novum (also part of the Allgeier group)
• Allgeier ITS provides full managed services
• 10 locations
INSERT INTO `Allgeier ITS` (
SELECT *
FROM `it-novum`
WHERE `department` = "Open Source Solutions"
)
SCOPE OF OUTSOURCING
FOR MODERNIZATION, SCALING, TCO IMPROVEMENT OR HANDOVER OF RESPONSIBILITY
SLA BASED
OUTTASKING
FULL MANAGED
IT TEAMS
Service Desk Teams
Field Service Teams
Infrastructure Teams
Data Center Teams
MANAGED SERVICES
Local infrastructure management
from networks, clients and servers
to the public and private cloud
with its own 24 x 7 service desk
and service management
SLA BASED
FULL SERVICE
PROJECTS
Data Center Relocation
Cloud MigrationInfrastructure
Projects
Modern Workplace
Implementation
Collaboration, M365 &
MS Teams Telephony, UCaaS,
Contact Center
Transition & IT Change Projects
Introduction of Azure (Intunes,
Sentinel, etc.)
Workplace as a Service
Service Desk
Field Service
Data Center Management
Private Cloud
Security Operations Center
Application Management
Provision of project teams and
implementation of projects based on
Prince 2, Scrum, DevOps
We provide and manage entire IT teams
for you, working under your
governance, processes and
specifications.
You hand over individual IT topics to us
on an SLA basis. We organize the
qualitative provision of these services.
We take over large parts of your IT
requirements and bring along our
governance processes and systems,
which we adapt for you accordingly.
OUR PORTFOLIO
openITCOCKPIT
Key principles:
• Hassle-free
• Beginner-friendly
• Security by design
• Nagios compatible
• Modern Stack
openITCOCKPIT – OVERVIEW
DEB and RPM packages
Docker Images
Safe to update
Admin’s Choice
Checkmk Raw Edition
Mattermost
Pushover
Ticket Systems
Connectivity
Naemon Core
Mod-Gearman
Grafana
Graphite & VictoriaMetrics
Check plugins and templates
Monitoring Framework
Configuration of assets
Role-based access control (RBAC)
Multi-Tenancy
LDAP / oAuth authentication
Maps / Dashboards / Reports / you name it
Frontend
openITCOCKPIT - STACK
https://docs.openitcockpit.io/en/development/api/
100% API
Eat your own dog food
openITCOCKPIT – DASHBOARD
openITCOCKPIT – USER ROLES
openITCOCKPIT – STATUS PAGES
openITCOCKPIT – TIMELINE OF EVENTS
openITCOCKPIT – EVENT CORRELATION
• Cross-Platform Monitoring Agent for openITCOCKPIT written in Go
• Zero dependencies – single binary
• Pull or Push mode
• SSL/TLS client authentication
• Support for custom checks
• Nagios Plugin compatible
• Prometheus Proxy (Pull-Mode)
https://github.com/openITCOCKPIT/openitcockpit-agent-go
openITCOCKPIT AGENT
openITCOCKPIT DESKTOP APP
• Cross-Platform
• Push Notifications
• Widgets
https://openitcockpit.io/d
ownload_app/
PROXMOX VE - DEMO
Let's see it in action
AGENT - DEMO
• I need a volunteer (Linux or macOS)
• Totally not a virus
• Download from
• https://openitcockpit.io/agent_demo/
Wir begeistern unsere Kunden mit einer
kompetenten und nachhaltigen Beratungsleistung
sowie individuellen und ganzheitlichen Services.
Als vertrauensvoller Partner machen wir die
Mehrwerte einer vernetzten Welt für unsere
Kunden erlebbar.
www.allgeier-its.com | info@allgeier-its.com | +49 4488 52 80 80

OSMC 2025: From Install to Insight: Live Proxmox Monitoring with openITCOCKPIT by Daniel Ziegler.pdf

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    FROM INSTALL TOINSIGHT: LIVE PROXMOX MONITORING WITH OPENITCOCKPIT OSMC 2025 | Daniel Ziegler
  • 2.
    AGENDA 1. Who amI 2. Setup live demo 3. What is openITCOCKPT 4. Monitor a Proxmox Virtual Environment 5. Monitor a volunteer from the audience
  • 3.
    WHO AM I PROFILEPROJECTS I'M INVOLVED IN DANIEL ZIEGLER Senior Software Engineer • openITCOCKPIT • Statusengine • Naemon • Developer • Monitoring shenanigans since 2010
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    openITCOCKPIT @ALLGEIER ITS •We joined Allgeier IT Services this summer • From it-novum (also part of the Allgeier group) • Allgeier ITS provides full managed services • 10 locations INSERT INTO `Allgeier ITS` ( SELECT * FROM `it-novum` WHERE `department` = "Open Source Solutions" )
  • 6.
    SCOPE OF OUTSOURCING FORMODERNIZATION, SCALING, TCO IMPROVEMENT OR HANDOVER OF RESPONSIBILITY SLA BASED OUTTASKING FULL MANAGED IT TEAMS Service Desk Teams Field Service Teams Infrastructure Teams Data Center Teams MANAGED SERVICES Local infrastructure management from networks, clients and servers to the public and private cloud with its own 24 x 7 service desk and service management SLA BASED FULL SERVICE PROJECTS Data Center Relocation Cloud MigrationInfrastructure Projects Modern Workplace Implementation Collaboration, M365 & MS Teams Telephony, UCaaS, Contact Center Transition & IT Change Projects Introduction of Azure (Intunes, Sentinel, etc.) Workplace as a Service Service Desk Field Service Data Center Management Private Cloud Security Operations Center Application Management Provision of project teams and implementation of projects based on Prince 2, Scrum, DevOps We provide and manage entire IT teams for you, working under your governance, processes and specifications. You hand over individual IT topics to us on an SLA basis. We organize the qualitative provision of these services. We take over large parts of your IT requirements and bring along our governance processes and systems, which we adapt for you accordingly. OUR PORTFOLIO
  • 7.
    openITCOCKPIT Key principles: • Hassle-free •Beginner-friendly • Security by design • Nagios compatible • Modern Stack
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    openITCOCKPIT – OVERVIEW DEBand RPM packages Docker Images Safe to update Admin’s Choice Checkmk Raw Edition Mattermost Pushover Ticket Systems Connectivity Naemon Core Mod-Gearman Grafana Graphite & VictoriaMetrics Check plugins and templates Monitoring Framework Configuration of assets Role-based access control (RBAC) Multi-Tenancy LDAP / oAuth authentication Maps / Dashboards / Reports / you name it Frontend
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    • Cross-Platform MonitoringAgent for openITCOCKPIT written in Go • Zero dependencies – single binary • Pull or Push mode • SSL/TLS client authentication • Support for custom checks • Nagios Plugin compatible • Prometheus Proxy (Pull-Mode) https://github.com/openITCOCKPIT/openitcockpit-agent-go openITCOCKPIT AGENT
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    openITCOCKPIT DESKTOP APP •Cross-Platform • Push Notifications • Widgets https://openitcockpit.io/d ownload_app/
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    PROXMOX VE -DEMO Let's see it in action
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    AGENT - DEMO •I need a volunteer (Linux or macOS) • Totally not a virus • Download from • https://openitcockpit.io/agent_demo/
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    Wir begeistern unsereKunden mit einer kompetenten und nachhaltigen Beratungsleistung sowie individuellen und ganzheitlichen Services. Als vertrauensvoller Partner machen wir die Mehrwerte einer vernetzten Welt für unsere Kunden erlebbar. www.allgeier-its.com | [email protected] | +49 4488 52 80 80