[openstack-dev] [QA][Tempest][Ceilometer] Pollster's testing strategy

Nadya Privalova nprivalova at mirantis.com
Fri Dec 20 16:02:58 UTC 2013


Thanks, Julien!

Will create blueprint on Monday and will start implementation.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20 2013, Nadya Privalova wrote:
>
> Hi Nadya,
>
> > For QA and Tempest guys brief description of Ceilometer's pollstering.
> > Ceilometer has several agents that once in 'interval' asks Nova, Glance
> and
> > other services about their metrics. We need to test this functionality,
> > 'Interval' is defined in pipeline.yaml file and is 10 minutes by default.
> >
> > I'd like to discuss the strategy of pollster's testing in tempest. Now we
> > need to wait 10 min to test the correctness of pollsters' work, as I
> > understand it is not appropriate.
> > I see the following solutions here:
> > 1. Add smth like 'if tempest then interval = 5 sec'. This change should
> go
> > to gating AFAIU
> > 2. Add additional functionality in Ceilometer:
> run_all_pollsters_on_demand.
> > I think this may be useful not only in tempest.
>
> I think having 2. is a good idea. It could be used in any environment
> for debugging or having almost-real-time feedback.
>
> --
> Julien Danjou
> # Free Software hacker # independent consultant
> # http://julien.danjou.info
>
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