- if python < 2.5, then we need `argparse` package
    - pyzmq 

python setup.py bdist_rpm

There are a few requirement for a valid plugin extension:

• A plugin needs to be named starting with metric_.

• A plugin needs to implement three required method:

  • metric_init()
  • metric_cleanup()
  • get_stats()

This is similar to Ganglia. Since we forgo all the metadata attributes Ganglia plugin has to supply. There are limitation or requirements on what kind of data a metric collector can return:

In short, we expect a dictionary:

{   target 1: {
                    { key : value }, 
                    { key : value }
                    ...
              }
    target 2: { 
                    { key : value },
                    { key : value },
                    ...
              }
    ...
}

TBD