Update Telemetry Admin Guide

Add description of alarm workload partitioning that was introduced in this
patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/115237/9

Closes-Bug: #1364807
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<para>These are a lightweight alternative to webhooks, whereby the state transition is simply logged by the <systemitem class="service">alarm-notifier</systemitem>, and are intended primarily for testing purposes.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section xml:id="section_telemetry-alarm-workload-partitioning">
<title>Workload partitioning</title>
<para>The alarm evaluation process uses the same mechanism for
workload partitioning as the central and compute agents.
The <link xlink:href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tooz">
Tooz</link> library provides the coordination within the
groups of service instances. For further information
about this approach see
<xref linkend="section_telemetry-cetral-compute-agent-ha"/>.
</para>
<para>To use this workload partitioning solution set the
<option>evaluation_service</option> option to <literal>
default</literal>. For more information, see the alarm
section in the
<link xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/config-reference/content/ch_configuring-openstack-telemetry.html">
<citetitle>OpenStack Configuration Reference</citetitle></link>.
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section xml:id="section_telemetry-alarm-usage">
<title>Using alarms</title>