[ovirt-users] oVirt monitoring with libirt-snmp

[Dan Kenigsberg]

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 at 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.