Thank you for the info,

Do we need detailed configuring like the workload partitioning (allocation
of polling resources to individual agents). Or just mention the backend_url
with tooz setup? and rest of the thins taken care of automatically.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Chris Dent <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Vijaya Bhaskar wrote:
>
>  I know it is possible to have all the ceilometer services in
>> active-active, however the ceilometer-agent-central service is run
>> only in active-passive as far as I have researched. What are the
>> consequences of running multiple ceilometer-agent-central
>> services(that is in active-active). If there are serious consequences,
>> is there any way to run it in active-active mode.
>>
>
> I'm not sure if I've quite grasped the gist of your inquiry, but:
>
> Since Juno, multiple instances of the central polling agent can be run,
> each polling a partition of the resources that get polled. Each
> agent does discovery of resource on each polling cycle and then does
> only some of them based on the partitioning. The partitioning is
> coordinated via tooz[1] though group membership. Depending on the
> driver used, tooz itself can be highly available.
>
> The upshot of this is that you can distribute N central agents
> across a bunch of machines and they will coordinate to each do a
> subset of resources. Each agent runs a heartbeat, if it fails to
> send a heartbeat, group membership will be managed, and the
> remaining agents will pick up the slack. When the failed agent
> rejoins the group, grouping will be adjusted.
>
> I've played with this a fair bit and it is quite cool.
>
> The compute-agent and impi-agent can do this too, although it makes
> a bit less sense.
>
> In Kilo all three agent types have been merged under an umbrella
> which supports namespaces: ipmi, central, compute. Each running
> agent can support one, some or all namespaces, each one using
> coordinated partitioning.
>
> I hope that's useful.
>
> [1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tooz/
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> Chris Dent tw:@anticdent freenode:cdent
> https://tank.peermore.com/tanks/cdent
>
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