Description of problem: I deployed a 3 controller OSP9 cloud via OSPd and gnocchi processes are running although gnocchi is not used as the ceilometer backend. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): OSPd9 - 2016-06-08.1 (build) How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: gnocchi processes are running and consuming resources Expected results: gnocchi to be running if the director was "asked" to use gnocchi as a backend Additional info: On one of the controllers: [root@overcloud-controller-0 ~]# grep "meter_dispatchers" /etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf #meter_dispatchers = database meter_dispatchers = database [root@overcloud-controller-0 ~]# ps afx -F | grep "gnocchi" root 10013 4911 0 28162 968 21 20:08 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep --color=auto gnocchi gnocchi 21032 21029 0 125535 6660 18 Jun28 ? Sl 0:06 \_ /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND gnocchi 590 1 0 119045 67544 11 Jun28 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 932 590 0 145064 83348 3 Jun28 ? S 3:36 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 933 590 0 145209 83924 21 Jun28 ? S 3:33 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 934 590 0 145197 83792 19 Jun28 ? S 3:34 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 935 590 0 145170 83772 3 Jun28 ? S 3:27 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 936 590 0 145302 84028 9 Jun28 ? S 3:32 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 937 590 0 145185 83808 2 Jun28 ? S 3:37 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 938 590 0 145188 83808 4 Jun28 ? S 3:33 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 939 590 0 145088 83400 4 Jun28 ? S 3:33 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 940 590 0 145372 84284 12 Jun28 ? S 3:34 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 941 590 0 145272 83824 1 Jun28 ? S 3:34 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 942 590 0 145231 83856 14 Jun28 ? S 3:37 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 943 590 0 145099 83424 3 Jun28 ? S 3:34 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 944 590 0 145326 84136 13 Jun28 ? S 3:33 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 945 590 0 145226 83848 21 Jun28 ? S 3:30 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 946 590 0 145238 83860 16 Jun28 ? S 3:36 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 947 590 0 145242 83864 20 Jun28 ? S 3:33 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 948 590 0 145299 83876 2 Jun28 ? S 3:32 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 949 590 0 145239 83880 0 Jun28 ? S 3:31 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 950 590 0 145148 83472 6 Jun28 ? S 3:33 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 951 590 0 145379 84344 7 Jun28 ? S 3:34 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 952 590 0 145251 83892 6 Jun28 ? S 3:34 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 953 590 0 145347 83964 10 Jun28 ? S 3:33 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 955 590 0 145167 83508 22 Jun28 ? S 3:32 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 956 590 0 153585 84136 14 Jun28 ? Sl 3:34 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 957 590 0 561402 83800 11 Jun28 ? Sl 0:17 \_ /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-metricd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/metricd.log gnocchi 2491 1 0 156226 93712 9 Jun28 ? Ssl 4:42 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/gnocchi-statsd --logfile /var/log/gnocchi/statsd.log