Re: [Openstack] [Metering] how should it be done ? ( Was: schema and counter definitions)

2012-05-04 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Loic Dachary l...@enovance.com wrote: On 05/03/2012 09:58 AM, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Loic Dachary l...@enovance.com wrote: As I wrote in a previous mail, once we manage to provide an implementation that proves useful, we

Re: [Openstack] [Metering] how should it be done ? ( Was: schema and counter definitions)

2012-05-04 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Christopher MacGown ch...@pistoncloud.comwrote: Do you envision that writing to AMQP directly, or using the existing notification API (which seems to be a wrapper over the RPC layer, which is in turn a wrapper for AMQP)? The RPC layer is not merely a wrapper

Re: [Openstack] [Metering] how should it be done ? ( Was: schema and counter definitions)

2012-05-03 Thread Loic Dachary
On 05/03/2012 05:25 AM, Andrew Clay Shafer wrote: Integrating the metering agents as part of the core component, much in the same way it's currently done in nova. What specifically is done? If metering is not integrated in the beginning it will likely never be. Hi, I'm refering to

Re: [Openstack] [Metering] how should it be done ? ( Was: schema and counter definitions)

2012-05-03 Thread Loic Dachary
On 05/03/2012 09:58 AM, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Loic Dachary l...@enovance.com wrote: As I wrote in a previous mail, once we manage to provide an implementation that proves useful, we will be in a position to approach the core OpenStack components. Integrating

Re: [Openstack] [Metering] how should it be done ? ( Was: schema and counter definitions)

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Clay Shafer
It would be better if all OpenStack core components agreed on unified interfaces / messages for metering that would be easy to harvest without installing agents on nodes. This is also true for many services outside of the OpenStack eco-system. However, much in the same way munin and nagios

Re: [Openstack] [Metering] how should it be done ? ( Was: schema and counter definitions)

2012-05-01 Thread Loic Dachary
On 05/01/2012 09:57 PM, Andrew Clay Shafer wrote: I'm glad to see people championing the effort to implement metering. Is there someway to refocus the enthusiasm for solving the metering problem into engineering a general solution in OpenStack? I'm just going to apologize in advance, but I