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bobbanandClaude Sonnet 5 fea20456e4 Add a Windows agent (PowerShell)
Reports a Windows machine the way the Linux agent does, replacing the
"planned" stub in agent/windows: scheduled tasks plus hostname, IPv4
addresses, CPU model/cores/current load, memory, every fixed disk, and
TCP/UDP listening ports with the owning process (which feed the Ports
card, localhost-only listeners included).

Scripts (plain ASCII by design -- they are downloaded as text and Windows
PowerShell 5.1 reads BOM-less files as ANSI):
- report-tasks.ps1: collects and POSTs to /api/agent/report. Works in
  Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7. -DryRun prints the JSON.
  Microsoft's own \Microsoft\ tasks (hundreds) are left out unless
  INCLUDE_MICROSOFT_TASKS is set. Triggers are turned into readable text
  ("Weekly on Mon, Wed at 03:00", "At logon", "..., repeating every 15 min").
  Self-signed certificates work via API_INSECURE on both PowerShell
  versions (they need different mechanisms).
- install.ps1: elevated only; downloads the agent to ProgramData, writes
  agent.json with permissions locked to SYSTEM and Administrators *before*
  the token goes in, and registers a SYSTEM scheduled task (every 15 min
  plus at startup with a 2 min delay). Reinstalling replaces the task.
- uninstall.ps1: removes the task and only the files the agent installed.

Server: accepts schedule_type "windows_task"; a server can be registered
as Windows (Add a server has an operating system choice); an agent's
reported os_type ("linux"/"windows", anything else ignored) corrects the
stored one. The Servers page shows the right install and uninstall
command for each OS (Windows PowerShell 5.1 one-liners, with a self-signed
variant and a note about PowerShell 7), and Windows tasks are labelled
"Windows scheduled tasks". The Linux commands are unchanged.

Verified on this Windows machine, in both PowerShell 5.1 and 7:
- Real dry runs found and fixed bugs before anything shipped: tasks and
  ports came out as one nested item (return , $out wrapped twice), integer
  keys in an ordered dictionary index by position (wrong weekday names),
  and generic "Trigger" labels.
- End to end against the real agent-report router: HTTP, self-signed HTTPS
  refused by default and accepted with API_INSECURE, wrong token gives a
  clear one-line error and exit 1, and Swedish letters plus a euro sign
  survive JSON -> UTF-8 -> HTTP -> SQLite.
- 35 checks on trigger/action/duration descriptions, 20 on the installer's
  building blocks (task parts built but not registered, credentials file
  content and ACL, download over HTTP and self-signed HTTPS), 18 on the
  server rules, and the generated one-liners run through PowerShell's
  parser. The documented one-liners were run through iex and stop at the
  administrator check without changing anything.
- Found that PowerShell 7 ignores the ServicePointManager certificate
  override, so the installer's own download now uses -SkipCertificateCheck
  there.

NOT verified: the elevated install itself. Registering a SYSTEM scheduled
task needs elevation and changes the machine, so it was not run: the task
registration, that the repeating trigger really runs indefinitely, and
the agent running as SYSTEM under Task Scheduler have not been exercised.
Windows 10 / Server 2016 or newer is assumed; older is untested.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-27 00:09:00 +02:00

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# Homelab Manager
Repository: `git@10.200.5.13:bobban/Homelab-manager.git` ([gitea.labsconnect.se/bobban/Homelab-manager](https://gitea.labsconnect.se/bobban/Homelab-manager) externally).
A single dashboard for a homelab: Proxmox, Synology DSM, Semaphore, Tailscale,
Gitea, and Dockhand/Docker status and basic actions, plus DNS record
management, an IP address inventory (IPAM), and a secret-expiry tracker
(ported from [Sloth Manager](../Sloth%20manager)) and scheduled-task tracking
across Debian/Raspbian hosts (ported from
[Schedule Task Manager](../ScheduleTaskManager)). Looks and feels like a
[Tabler](https://tabler.io) admin dashboard. Sign-in is delegated to
Authentik (OIDC), with local admin/operator/viewer roles.
## Status
All modules from the original plan are built:
- Monorepo scaffold, Tabler-themed app shell/navigation
- Authentik OIDC login, roles (first user to sign in becomes admin), audit log
- **Dashboard** — an overview of every system this app tracks, all sharing
one widget-card design (label + status badge, a small stat row, then its
own breakdown): DNS (domain/record counts per provider, cached records by
type), Secrets (monitored/expiring/expired, by type), and one widget per
integration — Tailscale by OS, Proxmox by node (VM/LXC counts too),
Dockhand by container state (plus host count), Semaphore and Gitea by
last-run status (plus private-repo count), and Synology's CPU/RAM
alongside its disk-health breakdown. Breakdowns render as a stacked
proportion bar with a legend — no charting
library, matching the rest of the app's plain-Tabler-CSS approach.
- **Diagnostic Log** (admin-only) — every call this app makes to a DNS
provider or integration (Tailscale, Proxmox, Synology, Semaphore, Gitea,
Dockhand), success or failure, with latency and the error message if it
failed — the last 500 calls, filterable by source/result, for
troubleshooting connectivity issues (ported from Sloth Manager's
provider-diagnostics log, generalized to cover every integration this app
has, not just DNS)
- **Secrets** — expiry tracking for API tokens/certs/passwords. An SSL
certificate can optionally be given a host:port to watch: the app opens a
real TLS connection (daily, and on demand via "Check now"), reads the
certificate's actual expiry, and keeps the date current — so a renewed cert
is picked up automatically and an unreachable host is flagged instead of
silently going stale
- **IP Addresses (IPAM)** — inventory of IPs across vendors/locations,
with "Sync from Tailscale" and "Sync from Proxmox" actions to pull in
tailnet device IPs and VM/LXC IPs (never overwrites a
manually-entered IP), and each entry now shows its matching DNS
record(s) from the DNS module's cache
- **DNS** — zone/record management across Cloudflare, Loopia, Pi-hole, Azure
DNS, cPanel, and Technitium; providers are configured in-app (not via env
vars) and their credentials are encrypted at rest
- **Servers** — cron/systemd tracking across Debian/Raspbian servers via a
lightweight push agent (`agent/linux/`), Windows scheduled-task tracking
through a PowerShell agent (`agent/windows/`, see its README), plus manual
entries for things an agent can't see (Docker jobs, backups). The Servers page itself just lists
registered servers and (admin-only) adds new ones / issues agent tokens;
clicking a server opens its detail page with CPU/RAM/disk status, IP
addresses, matching DNS names (looked up from the DNS module's cache), and
its scheduled tasks — live hardware from Proxmox for VM/LXC-backed
servers, or from the agent's own hardware report for everything else,
both showing the same per-disk usage breakdown (an LXC's root filesystem
read straight from the host; a QEMU VM's actual mounts via its guest
agent, alongside the allocated size Proxmox already knew about without
one). Proxmox-linked servers also get start/stop/restart buttons right on the
detail page. The detail page also has an **Admin Links** section
(operator/admin to add/edit/remove) for bookmarking that server's own
admin UIs — Dockge, Webmin, Cockpit, Portainer, or anything else reachable
by URL. Since not every server is a Proxmox VM, an admin can hide the
"Proxmox link" card per server ("Not a VM? Hide this" / "+ Show Proxmox
link options") — it stays visible regardless once a server actually is
linked, so unlinking is always reachable.
- **Tailscale**, **Proxmox**, **Synology**, **Semaphore**, **Gitea**,
and **Docker** each get their own top-level page (backed by the
matching integration) instead of living inside a shared Integrations
browsing view:
- **Tailscale** — device list with online/authorized status, and
authorize/deauthorize/remove actions; a live device-count widget.
- **Proxmox** — VM/LXC status across every node in the cluster, with
start/restart/shutdown/stop actions; a live running/total widget. Each
online node also gets its own host-stats card — uptime, CPU usage/cores/
load average, RAM and swap usage, and per-storage usage (local, LVM-thin,
ZFS, NFS, etc). Supports self-signed certificates (common in homelab
setups).
- **Synology** — volume and disk health (read-only by design).
Supports self-signed certificates.
- **Semaphore** — Ansible run status per template across every
project, with a "Run" action to trigger a template; a live
template-count widget (with a last-failed warning).
- **Gitea** — repo list with each repo's last CI run status, and
re-running just the failed jobs in a run; a live repo-count widget
(with a failing-build warning).
- **Docker** — container status across every Docker host Dockhand
manages (one credential covers all of them), with
start/stop/restart actions, a host filter, image-update status per
container (from Dockhand's own cached update check, plus a button
to trigger a fresh one), and a live running/total widget (with an
updates-available count).
The Integrations page itself is now just a list of configured
integrations (name/type/status, visible to every role) with an
admin-only "Add integration" button and edit/enable/disable/delete
actions per row — the six dedicated pages above are where you
actually use each one.
- Every table in the app is click-to-sort on any column (numbers, booleans,
and dates/text sort correctly regardless of how the column formats them)
and has an "Export CSV" button next to it that exports whatever's
currently sorted/filtered. Tables that can realistically grow large
(DNS zones/records, IP Addresses, Secrets, Servers, Audit Log, and each
integration's device/container/guest/repo/template list) are paginated,
20 rows per page by default — adjustable under Settings → Display — and
CSV export still covers every sorted/filtered row, not just the current
page.
- **Settings** (admin-only) — notification channels (Gotify, ntfy, SMTP,
generic webhook) with per-channel test buttons, per-event toggles (DNS
record added/updated/deleted, daily secret-expiry reminder and daily
Tailscale key-expiry reminder — both sharing one configurable
time/timezone), badge-color customization for both DNS
providers and integration types, and a **Display** tab (date order,
12/24-hour clock, and rows-per-page for every paginated table) applied
consistently across the app.
All six integrations follow the same config-in-UI + encrypted-credentials
pattern, added (and edited — e.g. to rotate an expired API token without
recreating the whole integration) through **Integrations → Manage
integrations**. See [INTEGRATIONS.md](INTEGRATIONS.md) for exactly what
credential to create and what access it needs in each target system,
for every integration and DNS provider.
**Verified for real, end to end**: every module above — including all six
integrations, both their read-only views and their write actions
(start/stop/restart, trigger-a-run, authorize/deauthorize) — has been
exercised against the user's actual live homelab, not just built against
specs. That pass also found and fixed two real bugs: the Synology adapter
assumed HTTPS-only (the NAS is reached over plain HTTP), and the Tailscale
adapter read `online`/`isExitNode` fields that don't actually exist in the
real API response (fixed to derive them from `connectedToControl` and
`enabledRoutes`). See the git log for the full verification notes per
integration.
Server and storage health is watched every 15 minutes: a server whose agent
stops reporting, a server disk / Proxmox storage / Synology volume passing a
usage threshold, and a Synology volume or disk that's degraded or failing each
raise one notification when the problem starts and one when it clears (both
thresholds are set under Settings → Notifications). Active problems are
remembered across restarts, so a rebuild doesn't re-alert them.
**Tags** — servers can be tagged (prod, media, rack-1, …) from their detail
page by operators and admins. Tags show as coloured chips on the Servers page,
which can be filtered by one or several tags (the filter is in the URL, so a
tag on a server's page links to everything sharing it), and they're searchable
from the global search box.
Admins manage tags under Settings → Tags: add tags before any server uses them (they're
offered as one-click suggestions when tagging), give any tag a colour of your choosing
(or leave it on the automatic one), rename tags, and delete them. Renaming to a name
that already exists merges the two, and both rename and delete rewrite every server
that carries the tag.
**Privacy** — a page every signed-in user can open that says what this
installation stores (accounts, sign-in sessions with their IP and browser, the audit
and diagnostic logs, server reports, the secrets tracker, credentials), where data
goes (Authentik, your integrations and DNS providers, the notification channels
that are switched on, domain registries), what's kept in the browser, who can see
what, and how to limit or remove data. Retention, integrations and channels are
read live from the installation; channel addresses are shown to admins only. Each
user sees their own account and sign-ins there and can download their own data
(account, sign-ins, audit-log entries) as a JSON file.
**Consistency** — a report of where IPAM, DNS and your servers disagree about
an address: the same address on two servers, a DNS record named after a server
that points somewhere it isn't, an IPAM entry labelled with a server's name at
the wrong address, addresses in use that IPAM doesn't list (with an "Add to
IPAM" button), and server addresses no DNS record points at. It only compares
data the app already holds — nothing is fetched when you open it — so it says how
many servers reported addresses and how fresh the synced DNS zones are. Only
private addresses are compared; ranges you exclude (Docker's, which repeat the same
subnet on many hosts — 172.16.0.0/12 is excluded by default, remove it if that's a
real LAN for you) are left out of every source; anything that's fine on purpose
can be ignored with a reason, and stays ignored.
**Domains** — when each domain registration expires, read from the registry
itself. The domains behind your DNS zones are picked up automatically (a zone
like `lab.example.se` resolves to the `example.se` registration that actually
expires); others can be added by hand. Each is looked up daily over RDAP where
the TLD offers it, and otherwise over WHOIS via IANA's referral — which is what
makes `.se`, `.nu` and `.io` work, since those aren't in the RDAP bootstrap.
You're reminded daily from N days before expiry (Settings → Notifications,
default 30) until it's renewed, and told when an expiry date couldn't be
refreshed for several days. Registries that don't publish an expiry (`.de`,
`.eu`) can be tracked but have no date to warn about. Private zones (`.lan`,
`.local`) are skipped.
**Automation failures** — every 15 minutes the app looks at the latest run of
each Semaphore template and each Gitea repo's latest workflow run. A failed one
raises a single notification (with the project/template or repo, run number, and
for Gitea the run's link), and another when a later run succeeds. It's
state-based, so a job that fails every night alerts on the first failure rather
than every night. A run that's still going, was cancelled, or was stopped by
hand leaves things as they were, and anything that couldn't be read (a Semaphore
project or Gitea repo that errored, or an integration that's down) is neither
cleared nor re-announced. The first check after upgrading only records what's
already failing, so old failures aren't announced. Toggle it under Settings →
Notifications. For Gitea this follows the repo's most recent run on any
workflow or branch, the same as the Gitea page shows.
**Maintenance mode** silences alerts about one server, integration, or DNS
provider while you work on it (server offline / disk, storage and Synology
health, Proxmox backup alerts, and "integration down" for that service type).
Every window has a fixed end (5 minutes to 7 days) and expires on its own, and
a problem that began during a window and is still present when it ends alerts
then — a forgotten window can't hide an outage. A banner shows what's currently
silenced to every signed-in user.
**Ports** — each server's detail page has a Ports card for finding free ports
and remembering what each one is for. "Scan…" runs a TCP scan of a port range
from the app against the server's address (private addresses only, up to
20,000 ports at a time) and lists what's open plus the ranges that were
confirmed free; a free range can be clicked to reserve a port. Any port can
carry a service name and a comment, and a port with a note counts as taken
even when nothing is listening. The agent also reports what is bound on the
host (`ss`), which catches services listening on localhost only — a scan from
elsewhere can't see those, so they'd otherwise look free. Re-run the agent
install one-liner on a host to pick that up.
The app is installable as a PWA — "Install app" / "Add to Home Screen" from the
browser gives it its own icon and a standalone window on phone or desktop. This
needs the site to be served over HTTPS (browsers only offer install on secure
origins; `localhost` also counts). The bundled service worker deliberately
caches nothing, so an installed copy always shows the current build.
## Requirements
- Node.js 20+
- An Authentik instance reachable from wherever this app runs
## 1. Set up an Authentik application
1. Create an **OAuth2/OpenID Provider**:
- Redirect URI: `<APP_BASE_URL>/auth/callback`
- Scopes: `openid`, `email`, `profile`
2. Create an **Application** using that provider, and assign the users/groups
who should be able to sign in — Authentik controls who can authenticate;
the app's own admin/operator/viewer roles control what they can do once in.
3. Copy the provider's issuer URL, client ID, and client secret into `.env`.
## 2. Local development
```bash
cp .env.example .env # fill in AUTHENTIK_*, SESSION_SECRET, CREDENTIALS_ENCRYPTION_KEY
npm install
npm run dev:server # http://localhost:3000 (API)
npm run dev:web # http://localhost:5173 (Vite dev server, proxies /api and /auth to :3000)
```
Visit `http://localhost:5173` during development. Database migrations run
automatically on server start. SQLite data lands in `./data` (gitignored).
Generate `SESSION_SECRET` and `CREDENTIALS_ENCRYPTION_KEY` with:
```bash
node -e "console.log(require('crypto').randomBytes(32).toString('hex'))"
```
## 3. Run with Docker
```bash
cp .env.example .env
# edit .env
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d --build # build locally
# or, once an image is published to your registry:
docker compose up -d
```
The app listens on `HOST_PORT` (default `3000`); SQLite data persists in
`./data` on the host.
### arm64 (Raspberry Pi, Apple silicon, ARM servers)
Two compose files, one to build the image and one to run the published one:
```bash
# On any machine with Docker: build the arm64 image and push it to the registry
docker compose -f docker-compose.arm64.build.yml build
docker compose -f docker-compose.arm64.build.yml push
# On the arm64 machine: pull that image and run it (no build there)
docker compose -f docker-compose.arm64.yml pull
docker compose -f docker-compose.arm64.yml up -d
```
`docker-compose.arm64.build.yml` can also build and run right on an arm64 machine
(`up -d --build`). Building on x86 goes through QEMU emulation — slower, and it needs
a one-time `docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install arm64`.
Both files use the image `gitea.labsconnect.se/bobban/homelabmanager-homelab-manager:arm64`.
Set `IMAGE_REPO` and/or `ARM64_TAG` in `.env` to use another registry or to pin a release
tag (e.g. `ARM64_TAG=1.4.0-arm64`). The arm64 tag is kept separate from the default image,
so the existing `docker-compose.yml` is unaffected. A `.dockerignore` keeps host
`node_modules`, `.env` and `data/` out of the build.