Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization data collector

03/25/2026 Contributors

The DII Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization collector will attempt to discover the OSV compute workloads running on an OpenShift Virtualization environment - this collector will not discover all Open Shift pods. This is an HTTPS REST API-based collector. It is recommended to create one collector per OSV cluster.

The authentication approach for this collector is an authentication token bound to a service account. To create both the user account and the token:

oc create sa acq-readonly-cluster-user -n default
oc adm policy add-cluster-role-to-user cluster-reader -z acq-readonly-cluster-user --rolebinding-name acq-readonly-cluster-user-binding
oc adm policy add-cluster-role-to-user cluster-monitoring-view -z acq-readonly-cluster-user --rolebinding-name acq-readonly-cluster-monitor-user-binding

Run those 3 commands and watch for any errors.

When the commands complete:

oc sa new-token acq-readonly-cluster-user

This will create a token bound to your user.

Finally, you may also want your OSV administrator to run:

oc cluster-info

This will return the hostname/IP address for management. Each DII OSV collector needs to be pointed at the IP/hostname for OSV management.

Terminology

For each asset type acquired by Data Infrastructure Insights, the most common terminology used for the asset is shown. When viewing or troubleshooting this data collector, keep the following terminology in mind:

Vendor/Model Term	Data Infrastructure Insights Term
Disk	Virtual Disk
Host	Host
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine
Storage Domain	Data Store
Logical Unit	LUN

Vendor/Model Term

Data Infrastructure Insights Term

Disk

Virtual Disk

Host

Virtual Machine

Storage Domain

Data Store

Logical Unit

LUN

Note: These are common terminology mappings only and might not represent every case for this data collector.

Requirements

IP address of the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization server over port 443 via REST API
Read-only username and password
RHEV Version 3.0+

Configuration

Field	Description
RHEV Server IP Address	IP address of the storage system
User name	User name with admin privileges
Password for the admin privileged account	Password

Field

Description

RHEV Server IP Address

IP address of the storage system

User name

User name with admin privileges

Password for the admin privileged account

Password

Advanced configuration

Field	Description
HTTPS Communication Port	Port used for HTTPS communication to RHOV
Inventory poll interval (min)	The default is 20 minutes.

Field

Description

HTTPS Communication Port

Port used for HTTPS communication to RHOV

Inventory poll interval (min)

The default is 20 minutes.

Troubleshooting

Additional information on this Data Collector may be found from the Support page or in the Data Collector Support Matrix.