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Table 8-2. Section in the System Health Tab (Continued)
Section Information
General Info This section provides information about the number of vCenter Servers added to the application
and the number of vCenter Chargeback hierarchies and entities created. It also displays the URL
and port details for the SMTP server and the URL of the vCenter Chargeback database. This
section displays the date and time when the page was last updated. When you move the cursor
over the SMTP server URL, a tool tip displays the URL and status of the server. When you move
the cursor over the database URL, a tool tip displays the URL, status, and response time of the
database.
vCenter Server
Databases
The URL of the vCenter Server databases for each vCenter Server added to the application is
listed. In the case of a cluster installation, the URL of the databases of all the vCenter Server
instances added to any of the vCenter Chargeback instance in the cluster is listed. When you
move the cursor over the database URL, a tool tip displays the URL, name of the database, the
display name of the corresponding vCenter Server, the status of the database, and the database
response time.
If the System Health tab is the active tab, then the user session will not time out. On all other tabs, if there is
no action, the user session times out after 30 minutes.
vCenter Chargeback Events
Most user actions generate an event in the application. These events are recorded in the Events Details panel
of the application.
This panel can be viewed on all the pages. The panel is minimized by default. To view the entries in the panel,
click the triangular icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen. The information displayed on the panel is
listed in the table.
Table 8-3. Information Displayed in the Event Details Panel
Information Type Description
Message A short message giving information about the event.
User Name The user login that caused the event.
Time The date and time when the event occurred.
Type The type of event.
A user can see only the events generated by his actions in vCenter Chargeback. If the user has an Administrator
role, he can also see the events generated due to the actions performed by the users that he has created. A user
with the Super User role can see all the events.
The information displayed in the table is useful to track which users performed which actions on the
application. The information in the Event Details panel is refreshed every 30 seconds. If this panel is open, the
user session does not get timed out.
If the system time of the vCenter Chargeback instances in a cluster are not in sync, the Event Details tab does
not display any event messages.
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