On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Tim Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is a use case for base metal hardware metering in the private cloud > where the user allocated the machine does not have root access to kill the > metering. How can we detect that special case? > > Being able to create a single metering infrastructure for the entire private > cloud, virtual or bare-metal allocation, is a need.... technically, it is > not clear how to guarantee it but it is worth exploring. I agree, it would be good to have an answer. Ceilometer can already hold the data, even if the agent to collect it is a custom solution. Doug > > Tim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Robert Collins >> Sent: 06 November 2012 11:00 >> To: Graf Lucas (graflu0); Zehnder Toni (zehndton); >> [email protected]; Doug Hellmann >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] Monitoring physical devices >> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Julien Danjou <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 06 2012, Graf Lucas (graflu0) wrote: >>> >>>> I'm a little confused now... ;) Is the bare metal run by the platform >>>> operator the physical machine? What do you mean with the bare metal >>>> run to replace virtual instances for any project? >>> >>> AFAIU, bare-metal provisionning is about using hardware (bare-metal) >>> rather than virtual instances as a flavor in Nova. >>> For such case, we won't be able to poll anything about the hardware. >>> >>> For hardware ran by the operator, this will be doable. >> >> We can still talk to the IPMI controller for the machine, which will get > us lots >> of info, without running agents in the host os. >> >> -Rob >> >> >> >> -- >> Robert Collins <[email protected]> >> Distinguished Technologist >> HP Cloud Services >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
