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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Julien Danjou <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>

Good points.

Doug