[openstack-dev] [Ceilometer][Aodh] event-alarm fire policy

Zhai, Edwin edwin.zhai at intel.com
Tue Sep 8 13:09:39 UTC 2015


Liusheng,
Thanks for your idea. I think it guarantees alarm action got called. But I just 
want it fired upon each matching event. E.g. for each instance crash event.

Have talked with MIBU, repeat-actions can be used for this purpose.

Best,
Edwin

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, liusheng wrote:

> Just a personal thought, can we add an ACK to alarm notifier? when an 
> event-alarm fired, the alarm state transformed to "alarm", if 
> 'alarm_action' has been set, the 'alarm_action' will be triggered and 
> notify. for event-alarm, a timout can be set to wait the ACK from alarm 
> notifier, if the ACK recieved, reset the alarm state to OK, if timeout 
> occured, set the alarm state to 'UNKNOWN'. If 'alarm_action' has not 
> been set, we just need to recored the alarm state transition history.
>
> 在 2015/9/8 7:26, Zhai, Edwin 写道:
>> All,
>> Currently, event-alarm is one-shot style: don't fire again for same 
>> event.  But threshold-alarm is limited periodic style:
>> 1. only get 1 fire for continuous valid datapoints.
>> 2. Would get a new fire if insufficient data followed by valid ones, 
>> as we reset alarm state upon insufficient data.
>>
>> So maybe event-alarm should be periodic also. But I'm not sure when to 
>> reset the alarm state to 'UNKNOWN': after each fire, or when receive 
>> different event.
>>
>> Fire a bug @
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/aodh/+bug/1493171
>>
>> Best Rgds,
>> Edwin
>>
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Edwin


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