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First Steps

With ProxCenter installed and your Proxmox infrastructure connected, here is a guided tour of the dashboard and its key sections.

The Home Dashboard​

When you log in, the Home page gives you an at-a-glance overview of your entire infrastructure through a set of widgets:

  • Cluster Summary -- Total number of connected clusters, nodes, VMs, and containers
  • Resource Utilization -- Aggregate CPU, memory, and storage usage across all nodes
  • Node Health -- Online/offline status for each connected Proxmox node with quick health indicators
  • Recent Events -- The latest operations and system events from across your infrastructure
  • Backup Status -- Overview of recent backup job results (success, warnings, failures)
  • Tenant and vDC Overview (Enterprise) -- Tenant capacity, vDC consumption, and Green IT KPIs for MSP / IaaS deployments
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The dashboard refreshes data in real time. You do not need to manually reload the page -- metrics and statuses update automatically as your infrastructure changes.

ProxCenter home dashboard with cluster summary, resource usage, backup status, alerts, and node health
The home dashboard centralizes infrastructure health, resource usage, backup status, alerts, and node status.

The sidebar organizes ProxCenter's features into logical sections. Here is what each one covers.

Infrastructure​

Your central inventory for all connected Proxmox resources.

  • Inventory -- A unified table of all nodes, virtual machines, and containers across every connected cluster. Filter, search, and sort by any attribute. Click any resource to view detailed information, metrics, and available actions.
  • Virtual Datacenters (Enterprise) -- Configure tenant vDCs with quotas, placement boundaries, SDN networks, IPAM, and per-vDC backup isolation.
  • Storage -- Overview of all storage pools (local, shared, Ceph, NFS, ZFS) with capacity and usage metrics.
  • Ceph -- Dedicated view for Ceph cluster health, OSD status, pool configuration, and performance metrics (if your Proxmox environment uses Ceph).
  • Datacenters & Green IT -- Configure physical datacenter factors such as PUE, electricity price, CO2 factor, and server specs for VM and vDC energy reporting.

Operations​

Day-to-day management and monitoring tools.

  • Events -- Aggregated event log from connected Proxmox hosts, filtered automatically by tenant scope when multi-tenancy is enabled.
  • Backups -- Centralized backup management across PVE and PBS, including per-vDC PBS namespaces, tenant restore, and tenant-scoped backup jobs.
  • Alerts (Enterprise) -- Configure threshold-based and event-based alerts. In tenant mode, alerts are scoped to the tenant's visible resources.
  • Jobs (Enterprise) -- Track recurring tasks, maintenance operations, migrations, backup orchestration, and tenant-visible jobs from the orchestrator.
  • Reports (Enterprise) -- Generate infrastructure, tenant, and vDC reports covering resource usage, capacity planning, Green IT, and operational summaries.

Automation​

Advanced orchestration features for optimizing and protecting your environment.

  • DRS (Enterprise) -- Distributed Resource Scheduling automatically balances VM workloads across nodes in a cluster based on CPU and memory utilization thresholds.
  • Site Recovery (Enterprise) -- Configure disaster recovery plans with automated failover between Proxmox clusters. Define recovery priorities and test failover procedures.
  • Network Security (Enterprise) -- Manage network security policies and firewall rules across your Proxmox infrastructure from a centralized interface.

Security​

Access control and compliance features.

  • Users -- Manage ProxCenter users and view Proxmox user accounts across connected hosts.
  • RBAC (Enterprise) -- Role-Based Access Control with granular permissions. Define custom roles and assign them to users or groups with tenant and resource-level scoping.
  • Audit Log (Enterprise) -- Comprehensive audit trail of all actions performed through ProxCenter. Track who did what, when, and on which resource.

Settings​

Platform configuration and account management.

  • General -- Application settings, display preferences, and data refresh intervals.
  • License -- View your current edition (Community or Enterprise), activate a license key, and check feature availability.
  • Connections -- Manage your Proxmox VE and PBS connections (add, edit, remove, test).
  • Notifications (Enterprise) -- Configure notification channels (email, webhook, Slack, Telegram) for alerts and reports.
  • LDAP (Enterprise) -- Connect ProxCenter to your LDAP or Active Directory server for centralized user authentication.
  • Multi-Tenancy (Enterprise) -- Manage tenants, tenant lifecycle, cross-tenant users, and vDC assignments for MSP / IaaS deployments.
  • White Label (Enterprise) -- Customize the application identity, email branding, and login page for customer-facing environments.
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Features marked (Enterprise) require an active Enterprise license. In the Community edition, Enterprise-only sections are hidden or display an upgrade prompt depending on context.

Tips for Getting Started​

  1. Check your connections -- Head to Infrastructure and verify all your Proxmox nodes show as online with a green status indicator.
  2. Explore the inventory -- Click through your nodes, VMs, and containers to see detailed metrics and available actions.
  3. Review your backups -- Go to Operations > Backups to confirm your backup jobs are running as expected.
  4. Set up additional users -- If your team needs access, create user accounts under Security > Users.
  5. Create vDCs for tenants -- For MSP / IaaS deployments, create tenants, assign vDCs, configure quotas, bind PBS namespaces, and verify tenant isolation.
  6. Activate your license -- If you have an Enterprise license key, enter it in Settings > License to unlock advanced features.

What's Next?​

Dive deeper into each feature area: