NAME

proxmox-datacenter-api - Proxmox Datacenter Manager Public API Server

SYNOPSIS

This daemon is normally started and managed as systemd service:

systemctl start proxmox-datacenter-api
systemctl stop proxmox-datacenter-api
systemctl status proxmox-datacenter-api

For debugging, you can start the daemon in foreground using:

sudo -u www-data -g www-data proxmox-datacenter-api

NOTE:

DESCRIPTION

This daemon exposes the whole Proxmox Datacenter Manager API on TCP port 8443 using HTTPS. It runs as user www-data and has very limited permissions. Operations requiring more permissions are forwarded to the local proxmox-datacenter-privileged-api service.

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER

Copyright (C) 2023 - 2025, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

AUTHOR

Proxmox Support Team

COPYRIGHT

2026 - 2025, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH