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notification bus and transforms them into Ceilometer samples. This
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is the preferred method of data collection.
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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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polling agent
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Software service running either on a central management node within the
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OpenStack infrastructure or compute node measuring usage and sending the
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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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* 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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metering
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Metering is the process of collecting information about what,
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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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“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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(Wikipedia, [#]_)
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project
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The OpenStack tenant or project.
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