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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">Thanks a lot, Doug. It does work after configuring pipeline.yaml.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">Gary<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:11 AM, Duan, Li-Gong (<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev"><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#BC1518;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Gary at HPServers-Core-OE-PSC</span></a>) <<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev"><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#BC1518;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">li-gong.duan at hp.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> Is there any best practices or good way to debug whether new pollster plugin work fine for ceilometer?<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> I’d like to add a new pollster plugin into Ceilometer by<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> - adding a new item under enterypoint/ceilometer.poll.central in setup.cfg file<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> - adding the implementation code inheriting “plugin.CentralPollster”. <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> But when I “sudo python setup.py install” and restart ceilometer-related services in devstack, NO new metering is displayed upon “ceilometer meter-list” and I expect that there should be a new metering showing the item defined in setup.cfg.<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> Is there any other source/config files I need to modify or add?<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">You need to define a pipeline [1] to include the data from your new pollster and schedule it to be run. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">Doug<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">[1] <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/configuration.html#pipelines"><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#BC1518;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/configuration.html#pipelines</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre>
<pre style="line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#535353">><i> Gary</i><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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