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Copyright 2012 New Dream Network (DreamHost)
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Copyright 2013 eNovance
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
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not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
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a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
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WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
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under the License.
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==========
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Glossary
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.. glossary::
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agent
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Software service running on the OpenStack infrastructure
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measuring usage and sending the results to the :term:`collector`.
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alarm
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An action triggered whenever a meter reaches a certain threshold.
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API server
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HTTP REST API service for ceilometer.
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ceilometer
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From Wikipedia [#]_:
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A ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or other light
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source to determine the height of a cloud base.
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central agent
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Software service running on a central management node within the
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OpenStack infrastructure measuring usage and sending the results
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to the :term:`collector`.
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collector
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Software service running on the OpenStack infrastructure
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monitoring notifications from other OpenStack components and
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samples from the ceilometer agent and recording the results
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in the database.
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compute agent
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Software service running on a compute node within the OpenStack
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infrastructure measuring usage and sending the results to the
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:term:`collector`.
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data store
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Storage system for recording data collected by ceilometer.
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meter
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The measurements tracked for a resource. For example, an instance has
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a number of meters, such as duration of instance, CPU time used,
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number of disk io requests, etc.
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Three types of meters are defined in ceilometer:
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* Cumulative: Increasing over time (e.g. disk I/O)
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* Gauge: Discrete items (e.g. floating IPs, image uploads) and fluctuating
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values (e.g. number of Swift objects)
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* Delta: Incremental change to a counter over time (e.g. bandwidth delta)
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notification
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A message sent via an external OpenStack system (e.g Nova, Glance,
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etc) using the Oslo notification mechanism [#]_. These notifications
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are usually sent to and received by Ceilometer through the notifier
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RPC driver.
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non-repudiable
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From Wikipedia [#]_:
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Non-repudiation refers to a state of affairs where the purported
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maker of a statement will not be able to successfully challenge
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the validity of the statement or contract. The term is often
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seen in a legal setting wherein the authenticity of a signature
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is being challenged. In such an instance, the authenticity is
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being "repudiated".
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project
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The OpenStack tenant or project.
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resource
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The OpenStack entity being metered (e.g. instance, volume, image, etc).
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sample
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Data sample for a particular meter.
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source
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The origin of metering data. This field is set to "openstack" by default.
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It can be configured to a different value using the sample_source field
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in the ceilometer.conf file.
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user
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An OpenStack user.
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.. [#] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceilometer
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.. [#] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ceilometer/tree/ceilometer/openstack/common/notifier
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.. [#] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-repudiation
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