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Re: [Xen-users] System-wide profiler & Vulnerability Scanner for Xen VM

To: Jan Muhammad <janmuhd@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] System-wide profiler & Vulnerability Scanner for Xen VMs!
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:30:54 +0700
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On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Jan Muhammad <janmuhd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've a debian-based setup of 2 domUs and I'm interested for any supported 
> tool to give me the domUs profiles, I came accros "Xenprof" 
> http://xenoprof.sourceforge.net/#download

Are you familiar with profiling?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_analysis

> I wonder would it help me to know  exactly what software currently installed 
> on domU what patches insatlled recently and bit info of hardware such as free 
> memory, disk space etc.

Short answer:no.
Those info you seek can easily be obtained using properly-configured
net-snmp (on Linux systems anyway) running on domUs. Nothing
xen-specific about it.

> I'm also looking through for 'dconf', don't know that would serve the purpose 
> or not?

No.

>
> Secondly, I'm interested to look through configuring Tenable Network Security 
> tool 'Nessus Vulnerability scanner'; does any one know how to configure it on 
> domUs? For example to know what domUs have what vulnerability and needs 
> patching etc..

configure it like you'd do on a physical, non-xen machine.

-- 
Fajar

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