This adds system usage notifications using the notifications framework.

These are designed to feed an external billing or similar system that subscribes to the nova feed and does the analysis. 

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nova/utils.py b/nova/utils.py
index 918541224..510cdd9f6 100644
--- a/nova/utils.py
+++ b/nova/utils.py
@@ -282,6 +282,22 @@ EASIER_PASSWORD_SYMBOLS = ('23456789'  # Removed: 0, 1
                            'ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ')  # Removed: I, O
 
 
+def usage_from_instance(instance_ref, **kw):
+    usage_info = dict(
+          tenant_id=instance_ref['project_id'],
+          user_id=instance_ref['user_id'],
+          instance_id=instance_ref['id'],
+          instance_type=instance_ref['instance_type']['name'],
+          instance_type_id=instance_ref['instance_type_id'],
+          display_name=instance_ref['display_name'],
+          created_at=str(instance_ref['created_at']),
+          launched_at=str(instance_ref['launched_at']) \
+                      if instance_ref['launched_at'] else '',
+          image_ref=instance_ref['image_ref'])
+    usage_info.update(kw)
+    return usage_info
+
+
 def generate_password(length=20, symbols=DEFAULT_PASSWORD_SYMBOLS):
     """Generate a random password from the supplied symbols.