Re: [Discuss] AutoScaling.next in CloudStack

[Chiradeep Vittal <Ch...@citrix.com>]

Hi Tuna,

The way the Netscaler autoscale function works is to assume that the VM
already has SNMP agent.
If the VM is Linux, it needs to have the net-snmp-util package (usually
there in most distro)
E.g., as documented here: http://goo.gl/KabIy5



On 11/28/13 2:31 AM, "Nguyen Anh Tu" <tu...@apache.org> wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Daan Hoogland
><da...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have some (limited) experience, it seems the fs[1] refered in this
>> thread is good enough if you need to expose data. How much of this is
>> being implemented at the moment?
>>
>> I suppose you need to design a way for leveraging data from
>> components, do you? i.e. the monitoriing service from Chiradeeps
>> picture[2]
>>
>> Daan
>>
>> [1]
>> 
>>https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/FS+for+Integrating
>>+CS+alerts+via+SNMP+to+external+management+system
>> [2]
>> 
>>https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Autoscale+framewor
>>k
>>
>
>Thanks Daan,
>
>Sure, I already read these pages. The SNMP alert feature is a good
>starting
>point. I learn how to push SNMP traps to SNMP external manages. But it's
>not really fit my scenario. That feature takes alert information from
>build-in event alert module, formats it to trap messages and forwards them
>to SNMP manager. Actually alert information don't cover VM-level. I need
>to
>think about installing SNMP agent to each VM, or a method that helps
>hypervisor to collect information from it's VMs.
>
>Cheers,