> On Thu, Nov 01 2012, Julien Danjou wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 01 2012, Zehnder Toni (zehndton) wrote:

>> My goal is to offer monitored data to the admin and customers. The 
>> admin is interested in the utilization of the physical components and 
>> the virtual machines and the customer is interested to know what his VMs do 
>> or can do.
>> It would be nice to get the data from a single point. I thought I can 
>> enhance the Ceilometer compute agent to get this data out. Does this 
>> make sense or is it better to use another monitoring tool for the 
>> physical components?

> I think the pollster implementation can be done. I wouldn't implement this in 
> the compute agent, but probably in some hardware agent, because it's likely 
> it would be used in different kinds of environment and not only on compute 
> node, i.e. you may also want to meter hardware usage for you cinder or glance 
> node anyway.

I think also the best way to implement this is to integrate a new (hardware) 
agent. Then we have a clear delineation. I'm very interested in helping to 
develop this.

Toni

> About the 10 minutes polling interval Doug mentionned, this can be a problem 
> indeed, but it's still solvable later and would be easy to solve if this in a 
> different agent, since you could change the periodic interval for pollster 
> runs to something like 1 or 5 minutes.

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