Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt monitoring with libirt-snmp
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:48:17PM +0200, Roman Mohr wrote:
Hi Kevin,
you should not change auth_unix_rw=sasl. I never used libvirt-snmp but it
is save to create another user like this:
> saslpasswd2 -a libvirt <username>
I did that several times on my hosts.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Kevin COUSIN <kevin(a)famillecousin.fr>
wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Is it safe to edit /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf? I need to change
> auth_unix_rw="sasl" because I want to allow libvirt-snmp to acess to VM
> informations. Perhaps I need to create a user in sasl instead ?
Would you share your use case for libvirt-snmp?
The supposed danger is that whatever uses snmp may modify VM state under
the feet of oVirt and surprise it.