Oh sorry, I misunderstood what you needed to do. The events stream may be able to give you a way to hook in and have some code called on Create and Delete, but you are right, it is probably not the best approach for what you need to do.
*Will STEVENS* Lead Developer *CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > Will, > > What I want to do is enable some sort of accounting based on iptables > counters (I only want to measure traffic to certain destinations, i.e. not > count inter-vm traffic in a SG zone). > I doubt it's something the events stream can help, but it's a good thing > to be aware of nonetheless. > > Thanks > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Will Stevens" <wstev...@cloudops.com> > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > Cc: "Pierre-Luc Dion" <pd...@cloudops.com> > > Sent: Friday, 1 April, 2016 15:38:19 > > Subject: Re: Hooking into the SecurityGroups > > > Patrick, did you guys end up doing anything with these events? I know we > > were messing with that at one point. Did we learn anything interesting? > > Is it a viable solution for what Nux is trying to do? > > > > *Will STEVENS* > > Lead Developer > > > > *CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts > > 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 > > w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ > > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Patrick Dube <patrickdub...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> @swill. You can configure CloudStack to push it's events to both mysql > and > >> RabbitMQ or Kafka ( > >> > >> > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-administration/en/4.8/events.html > >> ) > >> > >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Will Stevens <williamstev...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Pierre-Luc may have gotten something like this working. I think he > tried > >> > something similar. > >> > > >> > I think you can do something like redirect the events to redis and > then > >> > with a tool that uses the API and redis, build an event based overlay. > >> > > >> > I would have to look into this deeper, but I think PLD did some work > on > >> > this. > >> > Thanks a lot Jayapal! > >> > > >> > Will, that sounds nice but I have not seen anything like this. > >> > > >> > Another interesting thing might be - as Wido suggested - to use > libvirt > >> > filters instead of our python scripts and I believe libvirt has it's > own > >> > way of hooking stuff into it. Could be another thing to explore, > though > >> it > >> > sounds like a level lower than what you're proposing. > >> > > >> > Lucian > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > >> > > >> > Nux! > >> > www.nux.ro > >> > > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> > > From: "Will Stevens" <williamstev...@gmail.com> > >> > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > >> > > Sent: Friday, 1 April, 2016 12:50:16 > >> > > Subject: Re: Hooking into the SecurityGroups > >> > > >> > > Slightly off topic, but relevant. Ideally we could easily hook into > the > >> > > event logging and build added logic by simply tying them to specific > >> > > events. This would limit the hackery and would provide a system that > >> > others > >> > > could use without having to change the core. Has anyone done > something > >> > like > >> > > this? > >> > > On Apr 1, 2016 6:42 AM, "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> > >> I want to hook into the SGs and add a few iptables rules every > time a > >> VM > >> > >> is spawned and delete them when the VM is moved/deleted. > >> > >> Has anyone done this before? Any pointers before I go and butcher > it? > >> > :-) > >> > >> > >> > >> Lucian > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > >> > >> > >> > >> Nux! > >> > >> www.nux.ro > >> > >
