The Metering service consists of an API service, collector and a range of disparate agents. This procedure details the installation of the agent that runs on compute nodes. Install the Metering service on the compute node: # apt-get install ceilometer-agent-compute # yum install openstack-ceilometer-compute # zypper install openstack-ceilometer-agent-compute Set the following options in /etc/nova/nova.conf. # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT instance_usage_audit True # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT instance_usage_audit Hhour # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT notify_on_state_change vm_and_task_state # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT notification_driver nova.openstack.common.notifier.rpc_notifier # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT notification_driver ceilometer.compute.nova_driver Edit /etc/nova/nova.conf and add to the [DEFAULT] section. ... [DEFAULT] ... instance_usage_audit=True instance_usage_audit_period=hour notify_on_state_change=vm_and_task_state notification_driver=nova.openstack.common.notifier.rpc_notifier notification_driver=ceilometer.compute.nova_notifier You need to set the secret key defined earlier that is used as a shared secret between the Metering service nodes. # openstack-config --set /etc/keystone/keystone.conf publisher_rpc metering_secret $ADMIN_TOKEN Edit /etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf and change the [DEFAULT] section, replacing ADMIN_TOKEN with the one created earlier. ... [publisher_rpc] # Secret value for signing metering messages (string value) metering_secret = ADMIN_TOKEN ... Next, restart the service with its new settings. # service ceilometer-agent-compute restart Start the ceilometer-agent-compute service and configure to start when the system boots. # service openstack-ceilometer-agent-compute start # chkconfig openstack-ceilometer-agent-compute on Start the openstack-ceilometer-compute service and configure to start when the system boots. # service openstack-ceilometer-compute start # chkconfig openstack-ceilometer-compute on