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A general question about Alarms in Ceilometer ...

Is the intent that Ceilometer is collecting, managing & distributing 'general' OpenStack Alarms ?

·         All of the documentation around Alarms in Ceilometer is about PM Threshold Alarms;
i.e. Alarms triggered when a PM Counter crosses a specified threshold

·         But there are other types of Alarms associated with an OpenStack Cloud

o   Alarms related to equipment failures,

o   Alarms related to network failures,

o   Etc.

·         I have not seen any discussions suggesting that Ceilometer be used to collect, manage & distribute 'general' OpenStack Alarms

·         The architecture for managing Alarms would be very similar to that of PMs ...

o   The Ceilometer Architecture of Listener / Pollster Plugins and Publisher Plugins applies well to general Alarm Management as well

§  i.e. Listener / Pollster Plugins for listening or monitoring fault conditions

§  Publisher Plugins for generating the appropriate Alarms and sending to an Alarm Collector

§  An Alarm Collector with backend plugins for Northbound Management Interfaces (SNMP, Netconf, etc.)

Comments ?


Greg.
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