glossary: remove collector and add publisher

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Hanxi Liu 2016-12-20 17:05:57 +08:00
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agent
Software service running on the OpenStack infrastructure
measuring usage and sending the results to the :term:`collector`.
measuring usage and sending the results to any number of
target using the :term:`publisher`.
API server
HTTP REST API service for ceilometer.
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polling agent
Software service running either on a central management node within the
OpenStack infrastructure or compute node measuring usage and sending the
results to the :term:`collector`.
collector
Software service running on the OpenStack infrastructure
monitoring notifications from other OpenStack components and
samples from the ceilometer agent and recording the results
in the database.
results to a queue.
notification agent
The different OpenStack services emit several notifications about the
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The polling agent is collecting measurements by polling some API or other
tool at a regular interval.
publisher
The publisher is publishing samples to a specific target.
push agents
The push agent is the only solution to fetch data within projects,
which do not expose the required data in a remotely usable way. This

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Ceilometer has several daemons. The basic are: :term:`polling agent` running
either on the Nova compute node(s) or :term:`polling agent` running on the
central management node(s), :term:`collector` and :term:`notification agent`
running on the cloud's management node(s).
central management node(s), :term:`notification agent` running on the cloud's
management node(s).
In a development environment created by devstack_, these services are
typically running on the same server.