
Most of librairies available under openstack/common folder are now deployed by using oslo dedicated package. So we can remove them and point to new python package. Moreover, According to the November agreement in Oslo team, apiclient and clituils will be removed from Oslo incubator. We should keep the local copy by ourselfs Change-Id: I3abc09d1c512df1f5cb868ed462a7900260705ce Implements: blueprint make-watcherclient-use-graduated-oslo-lib
python-watcherclient
Python client library for Watcher API.
Watcher takes advantage of CEP and ML algorithms/metaheuristics to improve physical resources usage through better VM placement. Watcher can improve your cloud optimization by reducing energy footprint and increasing profits.
- Free software: Apache license
- Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Watcher
- Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-watcher
- Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/watcher
Installation
Install the prerequisite packages
On Ubuntu (tested on 14.04-64)
sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev python-pip git-core libmysqlclient-dev libffi-dev
On Fedora-based distributions e.g., Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux (tested on CentOS 6.5)
sudo yum install python-virtualenv openssl-devel python-pip git gcc libffi-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel
On openSUSE-based distributions (SLES 12, openSUSE 13.1, Factory or Tumbleweed)
sudo zypper install gcc git libmysqlclient-devel libopenssl-devel postgresql-devel python-devel python-pip
Install the Watcher client
You can install the Watcher CLI with the following command:
pip install python-watcherclient
Configuration
Create a creds file containing your Openstack credentials:
export OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION=3
export OS_AUTH_URL=http://<your-keystone-server>:5000/v3
export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID=default
export OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID=default
export OS_USERNAME=admin
export OS_PASSWORD=<your-password>
export OS_PROJECT_NAME=<your-project-name>
Source these credentials into your current shell session:
# source creds
You should be able to launch the following command which gets the list of previously created Audit Templates:
# watcher audit-template-list
+------+------+
| UUID | Name |
+------+------+
+------+------+
You can view the entire list of available Watcher commands and options using this command:
# watcher help
Troubleshootings
If any watcher command fails, you can obtain more details with the --debug option :
# watcher --debug audit-template-list
Install the openstack CLI :
# pip install python-openstackclient
Make sure that your Openstack credentials are correct. If so, you should be able to verify that the watcher user has been declared in your Openstack keystone :
# openstack user list
and that the watcher endpoints have been declared as well :
# openstack endpoint list