[openstack-dev] [ceilometer] Monitoring Physical Devices

Graf Lucas (graflu0) graflu0 at students.zhaw.ch
Tue Nov 20 09:58:57 UTC 2012


> On Tue, Nov 20 2012, Julien Danjou wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 20 2012, Zehnder Toni (zehndton) wrote:
> 
> > I can't see why an internal resource should send data via REST API post.
> > Could you explain why a REST API post is required?
> > I think the new agent shouldn't send data in a different way than the
> > existing agents.
> 
> One use case I have is some external projects (e.g. PaaS platforms) that
> integrate on OpenStack but are not really internals and wants to post meters.
> REST is the simplest way to do that.

Good point... What do you think in this case? Does it make sense to post "ceilometer-internal" data?
I think the data should be collected in the way ceilometer do it already with the VMs.

Lucas

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