From 1d66a0cecfb76c5e9a169bb74af8a734087822b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rabel Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:30:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that there is only one polling agent 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 --- doc/source/install/get_started.rst | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/source/install/get_started.rst b/doc/source/install/get_started.rst index b9c4d14133..3789291653 100644 --- a/doc/source/install/get_started.rst +++ b/doc/source/install/get_started.rst @@ -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