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[Luis Gervaso <luis@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see this is an accounting system, a billing system needs things like
promotional codes, vat, invoices ...

I'm proposing the way the events should be orchestated

Please, correct me, if i'm wrong

Luis

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Atul Jha <Atul.Jha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> Has anyone checked this
> http://www.griddynamics.com/openstack/docs/nova-billing/quickstart.html
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> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed
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> What is Dough then compared to what you want to do ?
>
> 2012/4/22 Endre Karlson <endre.karlson@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> endre.karlson@xxxxxxxxx>>
> What is Dough then ?
>
>
> 2012/4/22 Brian Schott <brian.schott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> brian.schott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> I see this blueprint for metering, but none for Dough currently.
> http://wiki.openstack.org/EfficientMetering
>
> Here are the Dough slides, however:
> http://www.slideshare.net/lzyeval/dough-openstack-billing-project
>
> We collectively need to talk more about the user scenarios, because I
> don't think you can just put a decorator around the API rpc calls and get
> an accurate picture of what to bill for later.  There are metered things
> like bandwidth or IOPS, events that happen outside of the API (shutdown
> -h), and it is hard to predict what a reseller will want to charge for.  It
> is better to put a metering system in that can handle many billing
> configurations.
>
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> On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote:
>
> Dough is the proposed billing platform/product (where the billing rules
> live), isn't it?
>
> I don't know Dough enough, so please me correct me if i'm wrong.
>
> I'm trying to define a generic/agnostic integration process, obviously
> where Dough
> can fit perfectly. I would like it become part to the reference
> architecture.
>
> Option 1) [3b in the arch proposed]
>
> Dough should pull NoSQL
>
> Option 2)
>
> A Mediator can feed Dough
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Endre Karlson <endre.karlson@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:endre.karlson@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> What about using the Dough project?
>
> Endre.
>
>
> 2012/4/22 Endre Karlson <endre.karlson@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> endre.karlson@xxxxxxxxx>>
> What about using the Dough project ?
>
> Endre.
>
> 2012/4/22 Luis Gervaso <luis@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:luis@xxxxxxxxx>>
> Hi,
>
> I want to share the architecture i am developing in order to perform the
> monitorig / billing OpenStack support:
>
> 1. AMQP Client which listen to RabbitMQ / QPid (this should be
> interchangeable) (Own Stuff or ServiceMix / Camel)
>
> 2. Events should be stored on a NoSQL document oriented database (I think
> mongodb is perfect, since we can query in a super easy fashion)
>
> 3a. The monitoring system can pull/push MongoDB
>
> 3b. The billing system can pull to create invoices
>
> 4. A mediation EIP should be necessary to integrate a billing/monitoring
> product. (ServiceMix / Camel)
>
> This is to receive your feedback. So please, critics are welcome!
>
> Cheers!
>
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