Configuring Linux KVM monitoring

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You must configure the Monitoring Agent for Linux® KVM to collect data of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEVH) and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEVM) servers. After you install the agent on a server or a virtual machine, you must create the first instance, and start the agent manually.

Before you begin

Review hardware and software prerequisites. For the up-to-date system requirement information, see the Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) for the Linux KVM agent.

About this task

The Linux KVM agent is a multi-instance and multi-connection agent. Multi-instance means that you can create multiple instances and each instance can make multiple connections to one or more RHEVM or RHEVH servers.
Remember: Use different instances to monitor RHEVM or the RHEVH servers.

The product version and the agent version often differ. The directions here are for the most current release of this agent. For information about how to check the version of an agent in your environment, see Agent version command. For detailed information about the agent version list and what's new for each version, see the Change history.

You can use the same configuration script to configure instances for the RHEVH and the RHEVM servers:
  • To configure a connection to the RHEVM server, complete the steps that are mentioned in the Configuring a connection to the RHEVM server topic.
  • To configure a connection to the RHEVH server, complete the steps that are mentioned in the Configuring a connection to the RHEVH server topic.