Source code for ceilometer.hardware.inspector.base
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"""Inspector abstraction for read-only access to hardware components"""
import abc
import six
@six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)
[docs]class Inspector(object):
@abc.abstractmethod
[docs] def inspect_generic(self, host, cache, extra_metadata, param):
"""A generic inspect function.
:param host: the target host
:param cache: cache passed from the pollster
:param extra_metadata: extra dict to be used as metadata
:param param: a dict of inspector specific param
:return: an iterator of (value, metadata, extra)
:return value: the sample value
:return metadata: dict to construct sample's metadata
:return extra: dict of extra metadata to help constructing sample
"""
[docs] def prepare_params(self, param):
"""Parse the params to a format which the inspector itself recognizes.
:param param: inspector params from meter definition file
:return: a dict of param which the inspector recognized
"""
return {}