The ceilometer.hardware.inspector.base Module¶

Inspector abstraction for read-only access to hardware components

class ceilometer.hardware.inspector.base.Inspector[source]¶

Bases: object

inspect_generic(host, cache, extra_metadata, param)[source]¶

A generic inspect function.

Parameters:	host – the target host cache – cache passed from the pollster extra_metadata – extra dict to be used as metadata param – a dict of inspector specific param
Returns:	an iterator of (value, metadata, extra) containing the sample value, metadata dict to construct sample’s metadata, and extra dict of extra metadata to help constructing sample

prepare_params(param)[source]¶

Parse the params to a format which the inspector itself recognizes.

Parameters:	param – inspector params from meter definition file
Returns:	a dict of param which the inspector recognized