{ "meta": { "title": "Proxmox VE System Commands — pveversion, uptime, journalctl, systemctl | ProxMenux", "description": "Reference of essential Proxmox VE and Linux system commands: pveversion, pveperf, uptime, journalctl, systemctl, lscpu, lsblk, df, free, last, who. All read-only and safe to run on any host.", "ogTitle": "Proxmox VE System Commands — pveversion, uptime, journalctl, systemctl", "ogDescription": "Reference of essential Proxmox VE and Linux system commands — version, uptime, services, logs, user info, hardware probes. All read-only.", "twitterTitle": "Proxmox VE System Commands | ProxMenux", "twitterDescription": "Essential system inspection commands for Proxmox VE — version, status, services, logs, user info." }, "header": { "title": "Useful System Commands", "description": "Read-only commands to look at the Proxmox host: version, kernel, uptime, memory, web UI status, recent log lines, who's logged in, and a couple of audit / summary tools. None of them modifies the system.", "section": "Help and Info" }, "intro": { "title": "What this is", "body": "The same numbered list ProxMenux shows when you choose Useful System Commands. Use the Copy button to grab any command, or look it up to remember the exact flag." }, "commandGroups": [ { "title": "System Information", "commands": [ { "command": "pveversion", "description": "Show Proxmox version" }, { "command": "pveversion -v", "description": "Detailed Proxmox version info" }, { "command": "hostnamectl", "description": "System hostname and kernel info" }, { "command": "uname -a", "description": "Kernel and architecture info" }, { "command": "cat /etc/os-release", "description": "OS release details" } ] }, { "title": "System Status", "commands": [ { "command": "uptime", "description": "System uptime" }, { "command": "uptime -p", "description": "Pretty uptime format" }, { "command": "free -h", "description": "RAM and swap usage" }, { "command": "who -b", "description": "Last system boot time" }, { "command": "last -x | grep shutdown", "description": "Previous shutdowns" } ] }, { "title": "Service Management", "commands": [ { "command": "systemctl status pveproxy", "description": "Check Proxmox Web UI status" }, { "command": "systemctl restart pveproxy", "description": "Restart Web UI proxy" }, { "command": "journalctl -xe", "description": "System errors and logs" }, { "command": "dmesg -T | tail -n 50", "description": "Last 50 kernel log lines" } ] }, { "title": "User Information", "commands": [ { "command": "whoami", "description": "Current user" }, { "command": "id", "description": "Current user UID, GID and groups" }, { "command": "who", "description": "Logged-in users" }, { "command": "w", "description": "User activity and uptime" }, { "command": "uptime && w", "description": "Uptime and who is logged in" }, { "command": "cut -d: -f1,3,4 /etc/passwd", "description": "All users with UID and GID" }, { "command": "getent passwd | column -t -s :", "description": "Readable user table (UID, shell, etc.)" } ] }, { "title": "Auditing & Summary Tools", "commands": [ { "command": "lynis audit system", "description": "Run a full system security audit" }, { "command": "fastfetch", "description": "Display system summary in ASCII format" } ] } ], "related": { "heading": "Related", "items": [ { "href": "/docs/help-info/update-commands", "label": "Updates and Packages", "tail": " — apt and pve upgrade commands." }, { "href": "/docs/help-info/tools-commands", "label": "System CLI Tools", "tail": " — htop, btop, ncdu and friends." }, { "href": "/docs/help-info", "label": "Help and Info overview", "tail": "." } ] } }