As I'm beginning work on https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/meter-post-api, so my question to the architect is, would it be possible for the hardware monitor to send information through REST API, instead of the event bus? That will make the hardware agent simpler IMHO. Thanks --jyh > -----Original Message----- > From: Zehnder Toni (zehndton) [mailto:zehndton at students.zhaw.ch] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:33 PM > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List > Subject: [openstack-dev] [ceilometer] Monitoring Physical Devices > > Hi there, > > > > As we discussed last week there is a need for hardware monitoring in the > OpenStack environment. I worked out a blueprint (see > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/monitoring-physical-device > s > <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/monitoring-physical-devic > es> ) for this case. There is also a diagram of the architecture on the wiki (see > http://wiki.openstack.org/Ceilometer/MonitoringPhysicalDevices) so we can > discuss about it more specifically. > > > > Toni > > > >