OPNFV Barometer Release Notes¶

This document provides the release notes for Danube Release of Barometer.

Version history ¶

Date	Ver.	Author	Comment
2017-02-16	0.1.0	Maryam Tahhan	First draft

The Barometer@OPNFV project adds a platform telemetry agent to compute nodes that is capabable of retrieving platform statistics and events, and relay them to Openstack ceilometer. The telemetry agent currently supported by Barometer is collectd. Some additional collectd plugin were developed to add functionality to retrieve statistics or events for:

Hugepages
mcelog memory machine check exceptions
Open vSwitch events
Ceilometer

Release Data ¶

Project	Danube/barometer/barometer@opnfv
Repo/commit-ID	barometer/
Release designation	Danube 1.0
Release date
Purpose of the delivery	Official OPNFV release

Version change ¶

Module version changes ¶

There have been no version changes.

Document version changes ¶

The Barometer@OPNFV installation guide version has changed from version 0.1 to to 0.2

Reason for version ¶

Feature additions ¶

JIRA BACK-LOG:

JIRA REFERENCE	SLOGAN
BAROMETER-38	RAS Collectd Plugin
BAROMETER-41	OVS Collectd Plugin
BAROMETER-43	Fuel Plugin for D Release
BAROMETER-48	Hugepages Plugin for Collectd

Bug corrections ¶

JIRA TICKETS:

JIRA REFERENCE	SLOGAN

Deliverables ¶

Software deliverables ¶

Features to Date ¶

This section provides a summary of the features implemented to date and their relevant upstream projects.

Barometer features to date

Barometer features to date cont.

Please note the timeline denotes DPDK releases.

Release B ¶

The features implemented for OPNFV release B (as part of SFQM) in DPDK include:

Callback API to enable TX/RX timestamping to measure latency through DPDK.
Extended NIC statistics API for 1GB, 10GB and 40GB NICs to expose detailed statistics for DPDK interfaces in addition to the overall aggregate statistics.
DPDK Keep Alive.

Release C ¶

The features implemented for OPNFV release C (as part of SFQM) include:

DPDK extended NIC stats API improvement; migrate from key value pairs to using id value pairs.
DPDK Keep Alive improvement, so that core status is exposed through a posix shared memory object.
collectd dpdkstat plugin that can retrieve DPDK interface statistics.
collectd ceilometer plugin that can publish any statistics collected by collectd to ceilometer.
Fuel plugin support for the collectd ceilometer plugin for OPNFV.