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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
From the Sentinel point of view, the Covenant are nothing more than trouble makers, "meddlers" as the Monitors call them. So the Sentinels will try to eliminate the Covenant.
From the Covenant point of view, initially they would have approached the Sentinels appropriately, but once the Sentinels open fire the Covenant will fight back. This happened in one of the novels, Ghosts of Onyx, where Onyx's sentinels destroyed Covenant ships, so the Covenant defended themselves.
The Covenant have no qualms about destroying Forerunner technology when it suits them. For example in destroying Forerunner technology to prevent others from getting it. (Like Humans in Halo Wars) The species in it are unbelievably gullible, believing everything that the Prophets tell them in that anything that fights them or indicates the opposite of their beliefs is corrupted. The lower ranks do not ask questions and just obey orders like drones, like what happened in Halo 2 where the Elites wondered why the Sentinels had allied with the Heretics. They never gave it too much thought before shooting everything as per their orders.