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authorGerald Kunzmann <kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com>2017-01-05 13:51:55 +0000
committerGerald Kunzmann <kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com>2017-01-09 11:23:06 +0000
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Several editorial corrections and improvements
JIRA: DOCTOR-81 Change-Id: I3a9c0d020bcbdbb261df8209556dbdf488f3c3db Signed-off-by: Gerald Kunzmann <kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com>
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@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ Immediate Notification
- Fault notifications cannot be received immediately by Ceilometer.
+* Solved by
+
+ + Event Alarm Evaluator:
+ https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ceilometer-specs/specs/liberty/event-alarm-evaluator.html
+ + New OpenStack alarms and notifications project AODH:
+ http://docs.openstack.org/developer/aodh/
+
Maintenance Notification
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -98,7 +105,7 @@ Maintenance Notification
- VIM user cannot receive maintenance notifications.
-* Related blueprints
+* Solved by
+ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/service-status-notification
@@ -126,6 +133,10 @@ Normalization of data collection models
- Normalized data format does not exist.
+* Solved by
+
+ + Specification in Section :ref:`southbound`.
+
OpenStack
---------
@@ -157,7 +168,7 @@ ________________________________
- Ceilometer seems to be unsuitable for monitoring medium and large scale
NFVI deployments.
-* Related blueprints
+* Solved by
+ Usage of Zabbix for fault aggregation [ZABB]_. Zabbix can support a much
higher number of fault events (up to 15 thousand events per second, but
@@ -189,13 +200,14 @@ ___________________________________
- OpenStack Ceilometer does not monitor hardware and software to capture
faults.
- + Gap
+ + Gap
- - Ceilometer is not able to detect and handle all faults listed in the Annex.
+ - Ceilometer is not able to detect and handle all faults listed in the Annex.
-* Related blueprints / workarounds
+* Solved by
- - Use other dedicated monitoring tools like Zabbix or Monasca
+ + Use of dedicated monitoring tools like Zabbix or Monasca.
+ See :ref:`nfvi_faults`.
Nova
^^^^
@@ -218,15 +230,14 @@ ________________________________________
+ To-be
- - There needs to be API to change VM power_State in case host has failed.
- - There needs to be API to change nova-compute state.
+ - The API shall support to change VM power state in case host has failed.
+ - The API shall support to change nova-compute state.
- There could be single API to change different VM states for all VMs
- belonging to specific host.
- - As external system monitoring the infra calls these APIs change can be
- fast and reliable.
- - Correlation actions can be faster and automated as states are reliable.
- - User will be able to read states from OpenStack and trust they are
- correct.
+ belonging to a specific host.
+ - Support external systems that are monitoring the infrastructure and resources
+ that are able to call the API fast and reliable.
+ - Resource states are reliable such that correlation actions can be fast and automated.
+ - User shall be able to read states from OpenStack and trust they are correct.
+ As-is
@@ -240,12 +251,11 @@ ________________________________________
+ Gap
- OpenStack does not change its states fast and reliably enough.
- - There is API missing to have external system to change states and to
- trust the states are then reliable (external system has fenced failed
- host).
+ - The API does not support to have an external system to change states and to
+ trust the states are reliable (external system has fenced failed host).
- User cannot read all the states from OpenStack nor trust they are right.
-* Related blueprints
+* Solved by
+ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/mark-host-down
+ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-novaclient/+spec/support-force-down-service
@@ -309,7 +319,7 @@ _________________
underlying root cause of failure. Knowing the root cause can help filter
out unnecessary and overwhelming alarms.
-* Related blueprints / workarounds
+* Status
+ Monasca as of now lacks this feature, although the community is aware and
working toward supporting it.
@@ -334,7 +344,7 @@ _________________
- Sensor monitoring is very important. It provides operators status
on the state of the physical infrastructure (e.g. temperature, fans).
-* Related blueprints / workarounds
+* Addressed by
+ Monasca can be configured to use third-party monitoring solutions (e.g.
Nagios, Cacti) for retrieving additional data.
@@ -370,7 +380,10 @@ _____________________________
+ Gap
- - Cause of the delay needs to be identified and fixed
+ - Cause of the delay is a periodic evaluation and notification. Periodicity is configured
+ as 30s default value and can be reduced to 5s but not below.
+ https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix/blob/trunk/conf/zabbix_server.conf#L329
+
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