On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Nick Barcet <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/20/2012 07:26 PM, John Griffith wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Nick Barcet <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hello John (or anyone else working on cinder), >>> >>> As part of the ceilometer project¹, we're working on usage data >>> retrieval from various OpenStack components. One of them is Cinder. >>> We're targeting Folsom for the first release, therefore it seems >>> important for both projects to be able to work together, this is why >>> we're bringing ceilometer to your attention and asking for advices. :) >>> >>> What we want is to retrieve the maximum amount of data, so we can meter >>> things, to bill them in the end. For now and for Cinder, this would >>> first include (per user/tenant): >>> - the amount of reserved volume space >>> - the amount of used volume space >>> - the number of volumes >>> but we'll need probably more in a near future. >>> >>> Do you have any advice regarding integration of Ceilometer and Cinder >>> together? What would be a stable interface we could rely on that would >>> be independent of the backend? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> ¹ http://launchpad.net/ceilometer >>> -- >>> Nick Barcet <[email protected]> >>> aka: nijaba, nicolas >>> >> >> Hi Nick, >> >> We should chat about how things are shaping up so far and how you're >> implementing things on the other sides (consistency where >> practical/possible). Also, it sort of depends on the architecture and >> use model details of Ceilometer, which I hate to admit but I'm not >> really up to speed on. >> >> My first reaction/thought is the best most appropriate place to tie in >> is via the python-cinderclient. There would be a number of ways to >> obtain some of this info, whether deriving it or maybe some extensions >> to obtain things directly. > > Sounds great. We have our weekly meeting on Thurdays at 4PM UTC [1] > which you would be welcome to join, or I can set up a bridge for us a > phone chat. Let me know what you would prefer. > > [1] http://wiki.openstack.org/Meetings/MeteringAgenda > > Cheers, > Nick > >
I'll drop in on irc tomorrow... Thanks, John _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
