[ovirt-users] oVirt monitoring with libirt-snmp

[Kevin COUSIN]

Hi Dan, 

I want to monitor my oVirt infrastructure with Zabbix. I found a zabbix template , but it needs to modifiy libirtd.conf to enable libvirt-snmp to access VM informations (https://github.com/jensdepuydt/zabbix-ovirt).

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       Kevin

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> À: "Roman Mohr" <rmohr at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Kevin COUSIN" <kevin at famillecousin.fr>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Envoyé: Jeudi 22 Octobre 2015 09:39:49
> Objet: 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 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.