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Clarify that there is only one polling agent

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Mention in install/get_started.rst that the compute polling agent
and the central polling agent are actually the same program,
running in different polling namespaces.

Change-Id: I338782ffd90b5f4aaf62512eb1449860b2dc90f5
Closes-Bug: #1728212
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David Rabel 2017-11-01 19:30:03 +01:00
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@ -16,12 +16,15 @@ The Telemetry service consists of the following components:
A compute agent (``ceilometer-agent-compute``)
Runs on each compute node and polls for resource utilization
statistics.
statistics. This is actually the polling agent ``ceilometer-polling``
running with parameter ``--polling-namespace compute``.
A central agent (``ceilometer-agent-central``)
Runs on a central management server to poll for resource utilization
statistics for resources not tied to instances or compute nodes.
Multiple agents can be started to scale service horizontally.
Multiple agents can be started to scale service horizontally. This is
actually the polling agent ``ceilometer-polling`` running with
parameter ``--polling-namespace central``.
A notification agent (``ceilometer-agent-notification``)
Runs on a central management server(s) and consumes messages from