Kernel-based virtual machine sensor
The Kernel-based virtual machine sensor uses the libvirt
library
to discover the KVM supervisor with the list of managed virtual machines.
Sensor name that is used in the GUI and logs
KvmSensor
Prerequisites
The libvirt
daemon
must be running on a target KVM host.
To avoid duplicates that are created by the Linux® computer system sensor and the KVM sensor, you must install DMI decode on each of guest computer systems.
Model objects created
The sensor creates the following model objects:
- KVM
- L2Interface
- ComputerSystem
- StoragePool
- StorageVolume
- CPU