The DMA Local Agent will provide the following features:

• Local processing of metrics – Allows metrics to be sampled at a higher rate than storage rate for detection of short-lived conditions.
• Runtime configuration of collectd – Collectd configuration can be managed remotely with the Local Agent providing the writing of collectd configuration and collectd restart.
• Simple OpenStack metadata discovery – Provide runtime information related to the mapping between virtual and physical elements.  The metadata can be attached to metric sent by collectd.