Deprecate GenericHardwareDeclarativePollster

This pollster was designed to be used in a TripleO deployment, to
gather hardware metrics from overcloud nodes. However in current
TripleO deployment Telemetry services are no longer deployed in
undercloud thus this pollster is useless.

Change-Id: Ic7d6b0adbbe9b33bc9421add849c49cf7ef823e0

ceilometer/hardware/discovery.py

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 # License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
+import warnings
+
 from oslo_config import cfg
 from oslo_log import log
 from oslo_utils import timeutils
@@ -24,29 +26,36 @@ LOG = log.getLogger(__name__)
 OPTS = [
     cfg.StrOpt('url_scheme',
                default='snmp://',
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help='URL scheme to use for hardware nodes.'),
     cfg.StrOpt('readonly_user_name',
                default='ro_snmp_user',
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help='SNMPd user name of all nodes running in the cloud.'),
     cfg.StrOpt('readonly_user_password',
                default='password',
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help='SNMPd v3 authentication password of all the nodes '
                     'running in the cloud.',
                secret=True),
     cfg.StrOpt('readonly_user_auth_proto',
                choices=['md5', 'sha'],
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help='SNMPd v3 authentication algorithm of all the nodes '
                     'running in the cloud'),
     cfg.StrOpt('readonly_user_priv_proto',
                choices=['des', 'aes128', '3des', 'aes192', 'aes256'],
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help='SNMPd v3 encryption algorithm of all the nodes '
                     'running in the cloud'),
     cfg.StrOpt('readonly_user_priv_password',
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help='SNMPd v3 encryption password of all the nodes '
                     'running in the cloud.',
                secret=True),
     cfg.StrOpt('tripleo_network_name',
                default='ctlplane',
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help='Name of the control plane Tripleo network')
 ]
 
@@ -58,6 +67,10 @@ class NodesDiscoveryTripleO(plugin_base.DiscoveryBase):
         self.last_run = None
         self.instances = {}
 
+        warnings.warn('GenericHardwareDeclarativePollster has been deprecated '
+                      'and will be removed in a future release.',
+                      category=DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=3)
+
     def _make_resource_url(self, ip):
         hwconf = self.conf.hardware
         url = hwconf.url_scheme

ceilometer/hardware/pollsters/generic.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 import itertools
 import pkg_resources
+import warnings
 
 from oslo_config import cfg
 from oslo_log import log
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ from ceilometer import sample
 OPTS = [
     cfg.StrOpt('meter_definitions_file',
                default="snmp.yaml",
+               deprecated_for_removal=True,
                help="Configuration file for defining hardware snmp meters."
                ),
 ]
@@ -66,6 +68,10 @@ class GenericHardwareDeclarativePollster(plugin_base.PollsterBase):
         super(GenericHardwareDeclarativePollster, self).__init__(conf)
         self.inspectors = {}
 
+        warnings.warn('GenericHardwareDeclarativePollster has been deprecated '
+                      'and will be removed in a future release.',
+                      category=DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=3)
+
     def _update_meter_definition(self, definition):
         self.meter_definition = definition
         self.cached_inspector_params = {}

releasenotes/notes/deprecate-generic-hardware-declarative-pollstar-dfa418bf6a5e0459.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    ``GenericHardwareDeclarativePollster`` has been deprecated and will be
+    removed in a future release. This pollster was designed to be used in
+    TripleO deployment to gather hardware metrics from overcloud nodes but
+    Telemetry services are no longer deployed in undercloud in current TripleO.
+
+  - |
+    The ``NodesDiscoveryTripleO`` discovery plugin has been deprecated and
+    will be removed in a future release. This plugin is designed for TripleO
+    deployment but no longer used since Telemetry services were removed from
+    undercloud.