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  Configuration Options
 =======================
 
-.. todo:: Document the configuration options.
+The following table lists the ceilometer specific option in the global configuration file.
+Please note that ceilometer uses openstack-common extensively, which requires that
+the other parameters are set appropriately. If you use sql alchemy, it's specific
+paramater will need to be set.
+
+
+==========================  ====================================  ==============================================================
+Parameter                   Default                               Note
+==========================  ====================================  ==============================================================
+nova_control_exchange       nova                                  Exchange name for Nova notifications
+glance_control_exchange     glance_notifications                  Exchange name for Glance notifications
+glance_registry_host        localhost                             URL of Glance API server
+glance_registry_port        9191                                  port of Glance API server
+cinder_control_exchange     cinder                                Exchange name for Cinder notifications
+quantum_control_exchange    quantum                               Exchange name for Quantum notifications
+metering_secret             change this or be hacked              Secret value for signing metering messages
+metering_topic              metering                              the topic ceilometer uses for metering messages
+control_exchange            ceilometer                            AMQP exchange to connect to if using RabbitMQ or Qpid
+periodic_interval           600                                   seconds between running periodic tasks
+os-username                 glance                                Username to use for openstack service access
+os-password                 admin                                 Password to use for openstack service access
+os-tenant-id                                                      Tenant ID to use for openstack service access
+os-tenant-name              admin                                 Tenant name to use for openstack service access
+os-auth-url                 http://localhost:5000/v2.0            Auth URL to use for openstack service access
+database_connection         mongodb://localhost:27017/ceilometer  Database connection string
+metering_api_port           9000                                  The port for the ceilometer API server
+================================================================================================================================
+SQL Alchemy
+================================================================================================================================
+sql_connection_debug        0                                     Verbosity of SQL debugging information. 0=None, 100=Everything
+sql_connection_trace        False                                 Add python stack traces to SQL as comment strings
+sql_idle_timeout            3600                                  timeout before idle sql connections are reaped
+sql_max_retries             10                                    maximum db connection retries during startup.
+                                                                  (setting -1 implies an infinite retry count)
+sql_retry_interval          10                                    interval between retries of opening a sql connection
+mysql_engine                InnoDB                                MySQL engine to use
+sqlite_synchronous          True                                  If passed, use synchronous mode for sqlite
+==========================  ====================================  ==============================================================
+