Agentless Processes Monitoring Architecture on Cloud Platform

To reduce CPU, memory and bandwidth usage as cloud platform security consumption, and to prevent vulnerabilities that brought in by VM based antivirus software, we propose an agentless processes monitoring architecture for cloud platform. To demonstrate this architecture, we modified KVM kernel, programed OpenStack plugins, added security module on both management and compute node in a cloud platform. With this architecture, we are able to monitoring all processes running on every VMs agentless in one cloud platform, then locate and terminate suspicious processes. Analysis and test results showed that this architecture is able to reduce resource consumption for cloud platform security and increase its security level.