diff --git a/ceilometer/ipmi/notifications/ironic.py b/ceilometer/ipmi/notifications/ironic.py
index e5d23a41c3..e15ffd56e8 100644
--- a/ceilometer/ipmi/notifications/ironic.py
+++ b/ceilometer/ipmi/notifications/ironic.py
@@ -16,21 +16,13 @@
 notification events.
 """
 
-from oslo_config import cfg
 from oslo_log import log
-import oslo_messaging as messaging
 
-from ceilometer.agent import plugin_base
+from ceilometer import notification
 from ceilometer import sample
 
 LOG = log.getLogger(__name__)
 
-OPTS = [
-    cfg.StrOpt('ironic_exchange',
-               default='ironic',
-               help='Exchange name for Ironic notifications.'),
-]
-
 
 # Map unit name to SI
 UNIT_MAP = {
@@ -62,7 +54,7 @@ class InvalidSensorData(ValueError):
     pass
 
 
-class SensorNotification(plugin_base.NotificationBase):
+class SensorNotification(notification.NotificationProcessBase):
     """A generic class for extracting samples from sensor data notifications.
 
     A notification message can contain multiple samples from multiple
@@ -76,12 +68,6 @@ class SensorNotification(plugin_base.NotificationBase):
     event_types = ['hardware.ipmi.*']
     metric = None
 
-    def get_targets(self, conf):
-        """oslo.messaging.TargetS for this plugin."""
-        return [messaging.Target(topic=topic,
-                                 exchange=conf.ironic_exchange)
-                for topic in self.get_notification_topics(conf)]
-
     def _get_sample(self, message):
         try:
             return (payload for _, payload
diff --git a/ceilometer/notification.py b/ceilometer/notification.py
index fc9a2ebc34..49862b7817 100644
--- a/ceilometer/notification.py
+++ b/ceilometer/notification.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ EXCHANGES_OPTS = [
     cfg.MultiStrOpt('notification_control_exchanges',
                     default=['nova', 'glance', 'neutron', 'cinder', 'heat',
                              'keystone', 'sahara', 'trove', 'zaqar', 'swift',
-                             'ceilometer', 'magnum', 'dns'],
+                             'ceilometer', 'magnum', 'dns', 'ironic'],
                     deprecated_group='DEFAULT',
                     deprecated_name="http_control_exchanges",
                     help="Exchanges name to listen for notifications."),
diff --git a/ceilometer/opts.py b/ceilometer/opts.py
index e2ba371ef2..8f80c2bc37 100644
--- a/ceilometer/opts.py
+++ b/ceilometer/opts.py
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ import ceilometer.event.converter
 import ceilometer.hardware.discovery
 import ceilometer.hardware.pollsters.generic
 import ceilometer.image.discovery
-import ceilometer.ipmi.notifications.ironic
 import ceilometer.ipmi.platform.intel_node_manager
 import ceilometer.ipmi.pollsters
 import ceilometer.keystone_client
@@ -82,7 +81,6 @@ def list_opts():
                          ceilometer.compute.virt.inspector.OPTS,
                          ceilometer.compute.virt.libvirt.utils.OPTS,
                          ceilometer.dispatcher.OPTS,
-                         ceilometer.ipmi.notifications.ironic.OPTS,
                          ceilometer.objectstore.swift.OPTS,
                          ceilometer.pipeline.OPTS,
                          ceilometer.sample.OPTS,
diff --git a/ceilometer/tests/unit/test_middleware.py b/ceilometer/tests/unit/test_middleware.py
index c5aec16a4a..54fc672f2e 100644
--- a/ceilometer/tests/unit/test_middleware.py
+++ b/ceilometer/tests/unit/test_middleware.py
@@ -97,4 +97,4 @@ class TestNotifications(base.BaseTestCase):
 
     def test_targets(self):
         targets = middleware.HTTPRequest(mock.Mock()).get_targets(self.CONF)
-        self.assertEqual(13, len(targets))
+        self.assertEqual(14, len(targets))