v6.1.0-rc.1 retired the legacy update endpoints before a replacement
existed, so the UI's Update button failed with an internal-jargon 410
(issue #1564). This lands the replacement end to end: update_container
is a typed agentexec operation with its own strict codec, durable
receipts, and a request digest bound to the image digest the plan
observed; the unified agent bridges execution to the Docker module's
existing pull/backup/recreate/verify/rollback implementation (which now
reports rollback attempt and outcome); and the container action
executor plans, dispatches, and reconciles the operation with declared
backup/rollback compensation truth. Containers advertise an
admin-approval update capability while an image update with a stated
current digest is detected. The legacy endpoints stay retired but
return actionable copy.
Proven live against a Colima daemon: single-container update, the
issue-1564 shared-network-namespace update, and the full UI journey
(Update button, governed review, approve, run) all completed with the
namespace preserved and the backup retained.
Refs #1515
The install command is generated under the Settings infrastructure
installer, not a "Settings > Agents" tab. Correct the agent log, installer
warning, and Machines tooltip to say "the Pulse UI" so the recovery step is
accurate.
Refs #1515
When an upgraded or restored Pulse server no longer recognises an agent's
API token, the report endpoint returns 401. The agent buffered and retried
that report forever with only a generic warning, and the server kept the
node green at its last known agent version because a Proxmox node stays
online via the PVE API poll even after its agent dies.
- Agent: special-case 401 on /api/agents/agent/report. Drop the report
instead of buffering it and log a throttled, actionable error pointing the
operator at the install command to mint a fresh token.
- Installer: verify_agent_server_registration now tells a rejected token
(401/403) apart from "agent has not reported yet" and prints the recovery
steps at install time instead of a vague soft warning.
- Status layer: resourceFromHost flags a stale agent (its host marked
offline by the staleness evaluator) and carries the agent's own last
report time. Coalescing keeps a node online via the PVE source but the
dead agent stays flagged, so its version is no longer presented as current.
The Machines table renders such versions as "(stale)".
On a Proxmox node, physical disks collected by the host agent were keyed by
the NVMe controller (e.g. "nvme0 [nvme]") instead of the namespace, reported
sizeBytes 0 (or a stale filesystem-usage value), and flickered as the agent
reading intermittently replaced the authoritative Proxmox disks/list reading.
Root causes:
- smartctl --scan-open reports NVMe disks by their controller char device
(/dev/nvme0), and that scan label became the reported devPath.
- DiskSMART carried no capacity, so the server backfilled size by matching the
SMART device against host filesystem-usage entries, which never match a whole
partitioned/LVM/ZFS disk, leaving size 0.
- The unified-resource merge let the agent's controller label overwrite the
canonical Proxmox /dev/... devPath.
Fixes:
- The agent now reports the canonical block device (an NVMe controller resolves
to its namespace) and the authoritative capacity from /sys/block, with the
smartctl user_capacity / nvme_total_capacity as a cross-platform fallback.
Disks behind multiplexing controllers (megaraid, cciss, areca) keep their
disambiguating label and smartctl-reported size.
- SizeBytes flows through the agent report, host model, and adapter; the
filesystem-usage match is demoted to a legacy fallback.
- The merge keeps a canonical /dev/<device> devPath and never downgrades it to
a scan label, so an un-updated agent can no longer corrupt Proxmox data.
Refs #1483.
Separate first-class platform support from Pulse Agent host profiles and classify Unraid as an agent-backed host profile while preserving it as presentation-only platform vocabulary.
The cold-startup race: if Pulse and the agent restart together, the
monitor has no connection-health data when the agent calls
checkRegistrationWithPulse at startup. The server defaults to
registered=true (no known-disconnected entry), so the agent skips
re-registration even though the token is stale. The node stays broken
until the next manual agent restart.
Fix: after the initial runProxmoxSetup call, start a background goroutine
that waits 2 minutes (giving the monitor time to poll PVE and record
failure state), then rechecks every 5 minutes via RunHealthCheck.
RunHealthCheck only acts on types that have a local registration marker.
Types without a marker are skipped to prevent uncontrolled token rotation
when Pulse is temporarily unreachable — those need a full startup setup
cycle via RunAll.
Together with the two earlier commits this closes all three stale-token
scenarios: install-time 401, long-running stale state, and cold-startup
race.
The agent gate only allowed temperature collection on Linux (lm-sensors).
FreeBSD exposes CPU and ACPI thermal zone temperatures via sysctl
(dev.cpu.N.temperature, hw.acpi.thermal.tzN.temperature). Parse sysctl
output directly in Go without shell involvement.
The --disk-exclude agent flag only filtered local metric collection but
had no effect on server-side Proxmox disk health and SSD wearout alerts,
which poll the Proxmox API directly. Users excluding disks (e.g.
--disk-exclude sda) still received alerts for those disks.
Agent now sends its DiskExclude patterns in each report. The server
stores them on the Host model and consults them during Proxmox disk
polling — excluded disks get a synthetic healthy status passed to
CheckDiskHealth so any existing alerts clear immediately.
Also adds FreeBSD pseudo-filesystem types (fdescfs, devfs, linprocfs,
linsysfs) to the virtual FS filter and /var/run/ to special mount
prefixes, fixing false disk-full alerts on FreeBSD for fdescfs mounts.
Relax the Linux-only gate on SMART collection to also run on FreeBSD.
Add FreeBSD disk discovery via sysctl kern.disks (lsblk is Linux-only).
The smartctl invocation and JSON parsing are already platform-agnostic.
Expand the smartctl collector to capture detailed SMART attributes (SATA
and NVMe), propagate them through the full data pipeline, persist them
as time-series metrics, and display them in an interactive disk detail
drawer with historical sparkline charts.
Backend: add SMARTAttributes struct, writeSMARTMetrics for persistent
storage, "disk" resource type in metrics API with live fallback.
Frontend: enhanced DiskList with Power-On column and SMART warnings,
new DiskDetail drawer matching NodeDrawer styling patterns, generic
HistoryChart metric support with proper tooltip formatting.
Implements server-side persistence for AI chat sessions, allowing users
to continue conversations across devices and browser sessions. Related
to #1059.
Backend:
- Add chat session CRUD API endpoints (GET/PUT/DELETE)
- Add persistence layer with per-user session storage
- Support session cleanup for old sessions (90 days)
- Multi-user support via auth context
Frontend:
- Rewrite aiChat store with server sync (debounced)
- Add session management UI (new conversation, switch, delete)
- Local storage as fallback/cache
- Initialize sync on app startup when AI is enabled
When a user's reverse proxy redirects HTTP to HTTPS, Go's default HTTP
client behavior converts POST requests to GET on 301/302 redirects
(per HTTP specification). This causes the Pulse server to return 405
"Only POST is allowed" errors.
Added CheckRedirect to all agent HTTP clients (host, docker, kubernetes)
that returns a clear error message guiding users to use the correct
protocol in their --url flag instead of silently following redirects.
Related to #1058
Previously, the PULSE_DISK_EXCLUDE environment variable and --disk-exclude
flag only filtered mount points in the hostmetrics collector. This change
extends the exclusion to SMART data collection.
Changes:
- Updated smartctl.CollectLocal() to accept diskExclude patterns
- Added matchesDeviceExclude() for block device pattern matching
- Patterns support: exact match (sda), prefix (nvme*), contains (*cache*)
- Updated hostagent to pass DiskExclude to SMART collector
- Added comprehensive tests for pattern matching
- Updated documentation
Allows specifying which IP address the agent should report, useful for:
- Multi-homed systems with separate management networks
- Systems with private monitoring interfaces
- VPN/overlay network scenarios
Usage:
pulse-agent --report-ip 192.168.1.100
PULSE_REPORT_IP=192.168.1.100 pulse-agent
Ubuntu was showing as "debian 24.04" because we used PlatformFamily
(which is "debian" for all Debian derivatives) instead of Platform
(which is "ubuntu" for Ubuntu).
Now uses Platform first, falling back to PlatformFamily only if empty.
Related to #927
When PBS is installed directly on a PVE host (an officially supported
configuration), the agent now detects and registers BOTH products instead
of only detecting PVE.
Changes:
- Add detectProxmoxTypes() to detect all Proxmox products on a host
- Add RunAll() method to register each detected product separately
- Use per-type state files (proxmox-pve-registered, proxmox-pbs-registered)
to track registration status for each product independently
- Maintain backward compatibility with legacy single state file
- Add tests for new state file path logic
- Add power.go with Intel RAPL and AMD energy driver support
- Read CPU package, core, and DRAM power consumption in watts
- Sample energy counters over 100ms interval to calculate power
- Add PowerWatts field to Sensors struct for API reporting
- Integrate power collection into host agent sensor gathering
- Add comprehensive tests for power collection module
Supports Intel CPUs (Sandy Bridge+) via RAPL and AMD Ryzen/EPYC
via the amd_energy kernel module.
Closescommunity-scripts/ProxmoxVE#9575
Extended lm-sensors parsing to capture all sensor readings:
- Fan speeds (RPM) from SuperIO chips like NCT6687
- Additional temperatures (DDR5/RAM, motherboard, etc.)
- All sensors not already captured as CPU/NVMe/GPU
Updated frontend tooltip to display fans and additional sensors
in separate sections with formatted names.
Closes discussion #911
Users can now exclude specific mount points from disk monitoring:
- Via CLI: --disk-exclude /mnt/backup --disk-exclude '/media/*'
- Via env: PULSE_DISK_EXCLUDE=/mnt/backup,*pbs*
Patterns support:
- Exact paths: /mnt/backup
- Prefix patterns: /mnt/ext*
- Contains patterns: *pbs*
This addresses the common case where external disks or
PBS datastores are being monitored but shouldn't be.
- Add smartctl package to collect disk temperature and health data
- Add SMART field to agent Sensors struct
- Host agent now runs smartctl to collect disk temps when available
- Backend processes agent SMART data for temperature display
- Graceful fallback when smartctl not installed
When the server disables command execution for an agent, we now properly
call Close() on the command client to tear down the WebSocket connection.
Previously we just set the pointer to nil which left the goroutine running
with an orphaned connection.
This implements full remote configuration for the AI command execution setting:
Backend:
- Add CommandsEnabled field to HostMetadata for persistent storage
- Add GetHostAgentConfig/UpdateHostAgentConfig methods to Monitor
- Add /api/agents/host/{id}/config endpoint (GET for agents, PATCH for UI)
- Server includes config in report response for immediate agent application
- Agent parses response and dynamically enables/disables command client
Frontend:
- Add 'AI Commands' toggle column in Managed Agents table
- Toggle immediately updates server config; agent applies on next heartbeat
- Add 'Enable AI command execution' checkbox in agent installer wizard
- Checkbox adds --enable-commands flag to generated install commands
This allows users to:
1. Enable at install time via checkbox in the wizard
2. Toggle remotely via the Managed Agents UI for existing agents
3. Agents apply changes automatically on their next report cycle
- Add CommandsEnabled field to AgentInfo in pkg/agents/host/report.go
- Agent now reports whether AI command execution is enabled
- Server stores and exposes this via Host model
- Frontend can now show which agents have commands enabled
- This provides visibility before implementing remote configuration
BREAKING CHANGE: AI command execution on agents is now disabled by default.
Users who want AI auto-fix must explicitly enable it with --enable-commands
flag or PULSE_ENABLE_COMMANDS=true environment variable.
Changes:
- Add --enable-commands flag (opt-in for command execution)
- Commands disabled by default for security (defense-in-depth)
- --disable-commands is now deprecated (logs warning, no longer needed)
- PULSE_DISABLE_COMMANDS deprecated in favor of PULSE_ENABLE_COMMANDS
- Update installer script to use --enable-commands
- Backwards compatibility: PULSE_DISABLE_COMMANDS=false still enables commands
This addresses community feedback about secure defaults for arbitrary
command execution on production infrastructure.
Related to #889
PROBLEM:
When two Proxmox hosts have the same hostname (e.g., 'px1' on different networks),
the auto-registration was matching by name and overwriting the first with the second.
This has been a recurring issue (#104) with at least 3 prior fix attempts.
ROOT CAUSE:
The auto-register handler matched existing nodes by BOTH Host URL and Name.
Matching by name is incorrect - different physical hosts can share hostnames.
FIXES:
1. Remove name-based matching in auto-registration - match by Host URL only
2. Add disambiguateNodeName() to append IP when duplicate hostnames exist
3. Add regression tests to prevent this from breaking again
Now when registering two hosts named 'px1':
- First becomes: px1
- Second becomes: px1 (10.0.2.224)
Both are stored as separate nodes with their own credentials.
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