monitor-all: decide on flag values, not on key presence

template and onboot are booleans, and Proxmox writes template: 0 for
plain containers instead of omitting the key, so the presence check
classified every one of them as a template and skipped it.

Read the value for both flags, match mon-restart against a whole
semicolon separated tag entry, skip instances whose config disappeared
between listing and reading, start instances that are stopped instead
of forcing a failing exec and ping first, and resolve the container
address from the first global one rather than assuming eth0.

The unit looped with its own five minute sleep, so the accompanying
timer could only ever start a service that was already running; drop
it and order the service after pve-cluster instead, which is what
actually has to be up before /etc/pve can be read.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -545,6 +545,10 @@ Exercise vigilance regarding copycat or coat-tailing sites that seek to exploit
 
 ## 2026-09-14
 
+### 🆕 New Scripts
+
+  - Borg-UI ([#17258](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/17258))
+
 ### 🚀 Updated Scripts
 
   - SparkyFitness: substitute NGINX_RATE_LIMIT in nginx config [@RafBorrelli](https://github.com/RafBorrelli) ([#17256](https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/pull/17256))

tools/pve/monitor-all.sh

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ add() {
 excluded_instances=("$@")
 echo "Excluded instances: ${excluded_instances[@]}"
 
+value_of() { sed -n "s/^$1:[[:space:]]*//p" <<<"$config" | head -n1; }
+
 while true; do
 
   for instance in $(pct list | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'; qm list | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'); do
@@ -59,21 +61,21 @@ while true; do
     if [ -r "/etc/pve/lxc/$instance.conf" ]; then
       type="ct"
       config_file="/etc/pve/lxc/$instance.conf"
-    else
+    elif [ -r "/etc/pve/qemu-server/$instance.conf" ]; then
       type="vm"
       config_file="/etc/pve/qemu-server/$instance.conf"
+    else
+      echo "Skipping $instance because its config is no longer readable"
+      continue
     fi
     config=$(sed '/^\[/,$d' "$config_file")
 
-    # Skip templates and onboot-disabled
-    if grep -q "onboot: 0" <<<"$config" || ! grep -q "onboot" <<<"$config"; then
-      onboot="true"
-    else
-      onboot="false"
-    fi
-    template=$(grep -q "^template:" <<<"$config" && echo "true" || echo "false")
+    # Both are booleans that Proxmox also writes as 0, so the value decides and
+    # not the presence of the key.
+    [ "$(value_of onboot)" = "1" ] && onboot="true" || onboot="false"
+    [ "$(value_of template)" = "1" ] && template="true" || template="false"
 
-    if [ "$onboot" == "true" ]; then
+    if [ "$onboot" != "true" ]; then
       echo "Skipping $instance because it is set not to boot"
       continue
     elif [ "$template" == "true" ]; then
@@ -81,34 +83,40 @@ while true; do
       continue
     fi
 
-    # Check for mon-restart tag
-    has_tag=$(grep -q "tags:.*mon-restart" <<<"$config" && echo "true" || echo "false")
-    if [ "$has_tag" != "true" ]; then
+    # Tags are semicolon separated, so match a whole entry instead of a
+    # substring of a longer tag such as mon-restart-disabled.
+    tags=";$(value_of tags | tr -d '[:space:]');"
+    if [[ "$tags" != *";mon-restart;"* ]]; then
       echo "Skipping $instance because it does not have 'mon-restart' tag"
       continue
     fi
 
     # Responsiveness check and restart if needed
     if [ "$type" == "vm" ]; then
-      # Check if guest agent responds
-      if qm guest cmd $instance ping >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      if ! qm status "$instance" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "status: running"; then
+        echo "$(date): VM $instance is not running, starting..."
+        qm start "$instance" >/dev/null 2>&1
+      elif qm guest cmd "$instance" ping >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         echo "VM $instance is responsive via guest agent"
       else
         echo "$(date): VM $instance is not responding to agent ping, restarting..."
-        if qm status $instance | grep -q "status: running"; then
-          qm stop $instance >/dev/null 2>&1
-          sleep 5
-        fi
-        qm start $instance >/dev/null 2>&1
+        qm stop "$instance" >/dev/null 2>&1
+        sleep 5
+        qm start "$instance" >/dev/null 2>&1
       fi
     else
-      # Container: get IP and ping
-      IP=$(pct exec $instance ip a s dev eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1 | head -n1)
-      if ! ping -c 1 $IP >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      if ! pct status "$instance" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "status: running"; then
+        echo "$(date): CT $instance is not running, starting..."
+        pct start "$instance" >/dev/null 2>&1
+        continue
+      fi
+      # Not every container names its interface eth0.
+      IP=$(pct exec "$instance" -- ip -4 -o addr show scope global 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d/ -f1 | head -n1)
+      if [ -z "$IP" ] || ! ping -c 1 -W 2 "$IP" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         echo "$(date): CT $instance is not responding, restarting..."
-        pct stop $instance >/dev/null 2>&1
+        pct stop "$instance" >/dev/null 2>&1
         sleep 5
-        pct start $instance >/dev/null 2>&1
+        pct start "$instance" >/dev/null 2>&1
       else
         echo "CT $instance is responsive"
       fi
@@ -124,23 +132,18 @@ EOF
   touch /var/log/ping-instances.log
   chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ping-instances.sh
 
-  cat <<EOF >/etc/systemd/system/ping-instances.timer
-[Unit]
-Description=Delay ping-instances.service by 5 minutes
-
-[Timer]
-OnBootSec=300
-OnUnitActiveSec=300
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=timers.target
-EOF
+  # The service loops with its own five minute sleep, so the timer that earlier
+  # versions installed could only ever start a unit that was already running.
+  if [[ -f /etc/systemd/system/ping-instances.timer ]]; then
+    systemctl disable -q --now ping-instances.timer 2>/dev/null || true
+    rm -f /etc/systemd/system/ping-instances.timer
+  fi
 
   cat <<EOF >/etc/systemd/system/ping-instances.service
 [Unit]
 Description=Ping instances every 5 minutes and restart if necessary
-After=ping-instances.timer
-Requires=ping-instances.timer
+After=pve-cluster.service
+Wants=pve-cluster.service
 
 [Service]
 Type=simple
@@ -158,7 +161,6 @@ WantedBy=multi-user.target
 EOF
 
   systemctl daemon-reload
-  systemctl enable -q --now ping-instances.timer
   systemctl enable -q --now ping-instances.service
   clear
   echo -e "\n Monitor All installed."
@@ -167,7 +169,7 @@ EOF
 }
 
 remove() {
-  systemctl disable -q --now ping-instances.timer
+  systemctl disable -q --now ping-instances.timer 2>/dev/null || true
   systemctl disable -q --now ping-instances.service
   rm -f /etc/systemd/system/ping-instances.service
   rm -f /etc/systemd/system/ping-instances.timer