Event notification listener for OpenStack

openstackEvents.py

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#    Required changes to nova.conf     #
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# notification_driver=nova.openstack.common.notifier.rpc_notifier
# notification_topics = notifications
# notify_on_state_change = vm_and_task_state
# instance_usage_audit_period = hour
# instance_usage_audit = True
# default_notification_level = INFO
# notify_api_faults = true
###### Restart Nova services after making the above changes #######

# Environment Variables: $AMQP_USER, $AMQP_PASSWORD, $AMQP_HOST
import os
from kombu import Connection, Exchange, Queue
from pprint import pprint

nova_x = Exchange('nova', type='topic', durable=False)
info_q = Queue('notifications.info', exchange=nova_x, durable=False, 
               routing_key='notifications.info')

def process_msg(body, message):
    print '='*80
    pprint(body)
    message.ack()

# Maybe wrap these in try/except: will raise KeyError if not found
AMQP_USER = os.environ['AMQP_USER']
AMQP_PASSWORD = os.environ['AMQP_PASSWORD']
AMQP_HOST = os.environ['AMQP_HOST']


# Maybe wrap this in a try/except: will raise socket.error if connection refused
with Connection('amqp://{0}:{1}@{2}//'.format(AMQP_USER, AMQP_PASSWORD, AMQP_HOST)) as conn:
    with conn.Consumer(info_q, callbacks=[process_msg]):
        try:
            while True:
                conn.drain_events()
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            exit()

Hello,
I had to replace routing_key='notifications.info' by routing_key='notifications.*' since I was not catching some nova messages like instance.create.{start,end} amongst others.