RHEA-2014:0954 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

OpenStack Telemetry packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0
(Icehouse) for RHEL 6 are now available.

Description

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building
a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud running on commonly
available physical hardware. This advisory includes packages for:

• OpenStack Telemetry service ("Ceilometer").
• OpenStack Telemetry client ("python-ceilometerclient").

OpenStack Telemetry (ceilometer) collects customer usage data for metering
purposes. Telemetry implements bus listener, push, and polling agents for data
collection; collected data is then stored in a database and presented via the
REST API. In addition, Telemetry's extensible design means it can be optionally
extended to gather customized data sets.

With this update, OpenStack Telemetry is now rebased to upstream version
2014.1.1. This rebase applies several important bug fixes, including:

• Launchpad #1315926: A bugfix in WSME (Web Service Made Easy) for correcting

the default values created another bug causing a test failure in
_validate_query. This has been fixed.

• Launchpad #856764: RabbitMQ connections lacked heartbeat or TCP keepalives.

As a result, placing a stateful firewall between the connection resulted in idle
connections being terminated without either endpoint being aware. RabbitMQ's
heartbeat and TCP keepalives have been provided so this no longer occurs.

• Launchpad #1317900: network notifications throwing keyerror: When bulk

creating ports, networks, subnets in neutron, the ceilometer-notification-agent
will be broken and raise a KeyError. This has been fixed and now errors are not
raised.

• Launchpad #1304419: update alarm combination can specify alarm_id of itself as

the value of "--alarm_ids":
Previously, update combination alarm could specify itself in alarm_ids, which
caused an endless loop when evaluating this alarm. This has been fixed and now
an alarm cannot specify itself in the combination rule.

These packages also fix other OpenStack Telemetry bugs found in the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4 release.

Solution

Before applying this update, ensure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 for RHEL 6 runs on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.5.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 for RHEL 6 Release Notes
contain the following:

• An explanation of the way in which the provided components interact to form a

working cloud computing environment.

• Technology Previews, Recommended Practices, and Known Issues.
• The channels required for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 for

RHEL 6, including which channels need to be enabled and disabled.

The Release Notes are available at:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/5/html/Release_Notes/index.html

This update is available through the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1118496 - Rebase openstack-ceilometer to 2014.1.1

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#none