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Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Linux Virtualization (LVIRT)

The LVIRT application monitors the attributes and statistics of Red Hat Linux KVM hypervisor-based virtual machines. This information is classified into configuration, state, and utilization statistics. This application class is represented by the LINUX_VIRTUALIZATION container in the PATROL console hierarchy.

Warning

Note

The instances of the LVIRT application class are displayed only on the KVM hypervisor-enabled platforms on which virtual machines are created.

Lvirt hierarchy

InfoBox Information

For information on how to access an application class InfoBox, refer to Accessing-KM-Commands-and-InfoBoxes.

Item

Definition

History Retention

The length of time history is retained

Worst parameter
(visible only if a parameter is in an alarm state)

The name of the application parameter that is having the most problems; if more than one parameter is in a warning or an alarm state, the parameter with the most severe problems is shown

Default username

The default PATROL user name, if any

Application class

The name of the object class

State

The current state of the object

Icon type

The type of icon selected (computer, application, container,parameter)

ID

Non-persistent ID of the virtual machine

UUID

Universally Unique Identifier of the virtual machine

Attributes (parameters)

The following attributes are available for this monitor type:

 

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BMC PATROL for UNIX and Linux 9.13