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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> There is a use case for base metal hardware metering in the private cloud
> where the user allocated the machine does not have root access to kill the
> metering.

How can we detect that special case?

> 
> Being able to create a single metering infrastructure for the entire private
> cloud, virtual or bare-metal allocation, is a need.... technically, it is
> not clear how to guarantee it but it is worth exploring.

I agree, it would be good to have an answer. Ceilometer can already hold the data, even if the agent to collect it is a custom solution. 

Doug

> 
> Tim
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of Robert Collins
>> Sent: 06 November 2012 11:00
>> To: Graf Lucas (graflu0); Zehnder Toni (zehndton);
>> openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Doug Hellmann
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] Monitoring physical devices
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Julien Danjou <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 06 2012, Graf Lucas (graflu0) wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm a little confused now... ;) Is the bare metal run by the platform
>>>> operator the physical machine? What do you mean with the bare metal
>>>> run to replace virtual instances for any project?
>>> 
>>> AFAIU, bare-metal provisionning is about using hardware (bare-metal)
>>> rather than virtual instances as a flavor in Nova.
>>> For such case, we won't be able to poll anything about the hardware.
>>> 
>>> For hardware ran by the operator, this will be doable.
>> 
>> We can still talk to the IPMI controller for the machine, which will get
> us lots
>> of info, without running agents in the host os.
>> 
>> -Rob
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Robert Collins <rbtcollins@xxxxxx>
>> Distinguished Technologist
>> HP Cloud Services
>> 
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