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[Julien Danjou <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 01 2012, Zehnder Toni (zehndton) wrote:

> My goal is to offer monitored data to the admin and customers. The admin is
> interested in the utilization of the physical components and the virtual
> machines and the customer is interested to know what his VMs do or can do.
> It would be nice to get the data from a single point. I thought I can
> enhance the Ceilometer compute agent to get this data out. Does this make
> sense or is it better to use another monitoring tool for the physical
> components?

I think the pollster implementation can be done. I wouldn't implement
this in the compute agent, but probably in some hardware agent, because
it's likely it would be used in different kinds of environment and not
only on compute node, i.e. you may also want to meter hardware usage for
you cinder or glance node anyway.

About the 10 minutes polling interval Doug mentionned, this can be a
problem indeed, but it's still solvable later and would be easy to solve
if this in a different agent, since you could change the periodic
interval for pollster runs to something like 1 or 5 minutes.

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Julien Danjou
// Free Software hacker & freelance
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