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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><pre>> b) Assuming there should be one:<br>><br>> * Where should it go? Presumably it needs to be an attribute of<br>> each sample because as agents leave and join the group, where<br>> samples are published from can change.</pre><pre>is this just for debugging purposes or auditing? from an audit standpoint, whenever an event/meter/whatever is handled within a system, it should be captured. so in CADF[1] and i assume any other auditing standard out there, when a resource such as a publisher in the pipeline creates the sample, it should add a reporter attribute noting that it was who created it and that would be captured in the final sample/event.</pre>[1] <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/pycadf/" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/developer/pycadf/</a><br><font face="Calibri">cheers,<br><i>gord</i></font> </div></body>
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