On Tue, Nov 19 2013, Devananda van der Veen wrote: > If there is a fixed set of information (eg, temp, fan speed, etc) that > ceilometer will want,
Sure, we want everything. > let's make a list of that and add a driver interface > within Ironic to abstract the collection of that information from physical > nodes. Then, each driver will be able to implement it as necessary for that > vendor. Eg., an iLO driver may poll its nodes differently than a generic > IPMI driver, but the resulting data exported to Ceilometer should have the > same structure. I like the idea. > An SNMP agent doesn't fit within the scope of Ironic, as far as I see, so > this would need to be implemented by Ceilometer. We're working on adding pollster for that indeed. > As far as where the SNMP agent would need to run, it should be on the > same host(s) as ironic-conductor so that it has access to the > management network (the physically-separate network for hardware > management, IPMI, etc). We should keep the number of applications with > direct access to that network to a minimum, however, so a thin agent > that collects and forwards the SNMP data to the central agent would be > preferable, in my opinion. We can keep things simple by having the agent only doing that polling I think. Building a new agent sounds like it will complicate deployment again. -- Julien Danjou // Free Software hacker / independent consultant // http://julien.danjou.info
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