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Re: [ceilometer] Monitoring physical devices

To: "Zehnder Toni \(zehndton\)" <zehndton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julien Danjou <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:51:05 +0100
Cc: "openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <AFEAAF74736F95438126B38653C694310E155732@srv-mail-521.zhaw.ch> (Zehnder Toni's message of "Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:44:15 +0000")
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On Thu, Nov 01 2012, Zehnder Toni (zehndton) wrote:

> On every physical compute node is the Ceilometer compute agent
> installed, right?!

Yes.

> 1) Does the compute agent collect data of the physical machine as well or is
> it just collecting data of the virtual machines?

Only virtual machines.

> 2) Could it be useful to enhance the Ceilometer agent to collect data from the physical servers? 

Why not. What do you have in mind exactly?

-- 
Julien Danjou
;; Free Software hacker & freelance
;; http://julien.danjou.info

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[ceilometer] Monitoring physical devices
From: Zehnder Toni (zehndton), 2012-11-01