User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback
- Installing vCenter Chargeback
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Prerequisites for vCenter Chargeback
- Download and Extract the vCenter Chargeback Installer
- Install vCenter Chargeback
- Create a vCenter Chargeback Cluster
- Install vCenter Chargeback with an Existing Database Schema
- Upgrading vCenter Chargeback
- Services Related to the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Accessing the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Data Collector
- Uninstall vCenter Chargeback
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Chargeback Entity
- Add a vCenter Server Entity
- Rename a Chargeback Hierarchy or a Chargeback Entity
- Delete an Entity from the Hierarchy
- Delete a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Assign Attributes
- Move Entities Within a Hierarchy
- Allocate Computing Resource Units for a Chargeback Entity
- Share Virtual Machine Cost
- Backdate a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View Properties of a vCenter Server Entity
- Managing and Configuring vCenter Chargeback Cost Elements
- Generating Reports
- Monitoring System Health
- Administration Utilities
- Troubleshooting vCenter Chargeback
- Troubleshooting Utility
- Troubleshooting Issues in vCenter Chargeback
- Changed Timezone Setting Is Not Reflected
- Changes to Chargeback Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in the Concurrent User-Sessions
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Installer Throws the SQL Driver Not Found Error
- LDAP Server Configuration Fails
- Non-English Characters Are Not Correctly Stored in the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Report Does Not Display the Disk Read and Disk Write Information
- Report Does Not Display the Memory Usage Value and the Corresponding Cost
- Report Does Not Display the Network Transmitted and Network Received Information
- Service Temporarily Unavailable Error
- Status of Failed Data Collector Is Not Reflected Immediately on the System Health Tab
- Storage Synchronization Job Fails
- Text and Messages on the vCenter Chargeback User Interface Are Not Correctly Displayed
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Unable to Add an LDAP Server
- Unable to Add vCenter Server in vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Change the Password for the vCenter Chargeback Keystore
- Unable to Configure Another VMware Cloud Director Setup with vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Server Database
- Unable to Email Report
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Unable to Use Custom SSL Certificates
- Unable to View the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In in the VI Client
- Index
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, click Data Collectors.
A table listing all the data collectors registered with the application is displayed.
2 Select the data collector that you want to delete, and click Delete.
A dialog box confirming you action is displayed.
3 Click OK to confirm deletion.
The data collector is deleted and the synchronization jobs associated with the data collector are assigned to
other registered data collectors, if any.
Configure VMware Cloud Director Data Collector
If you have installed the VMware Cloud Director Data Collector, you must configure its properties from the
Cloud Data Collectors page of the Settings tab.
Only users with the Super User role assigned to them can perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, click Cloud Data Collectors.
2 Select the VMware Cloud Director tab.
3 Select a property and click Edit.
You can edit several properties for VMware Cloud Director Data Collector.
Property Description
VMware Cloud Director database
host
IP address of the VMware Cloud Director database.
VMware Cloud Director database
name
Name of the VMware Cloud Director database.
VMware Cloud Director database
port
Port on which the VMware Cloud Director database is listening for request.
If no port details are specified, vCenter Chargeback considers the default
database port.
VMware Cloud Director database
username
VMware Cloud Director database user name.
VMware Cloud Director database
password
Password for the VMware Cloud Director database user.
Event processor job interval (in
seconds)
VMware Cloud Director Data Collector runs a job that reads and processes
the chargeback events in VMware Cloud Director. This property defines the
time in seconds between two such job runs. If the time between two job runs
is too large, then virtual machines that are created and removed within this
time frame might not be accounted for by vCenter Chargeback during cost
calculation.
Failed events processor job interval
(in seconds)
VMware Cloud Director Data Collector runs a job to clear failed chargeback
events in VMware Cloud Director. This property defines the time in seconds
between two such job runs.
Unprocessed chargeback event
lifetime (in seconds)
This property defines the time for which an unprocessed event is retained in
the database. After this lifetime period, events are removed from the
database because they are in an inconsistent state and cannot be processed.
Inconsistency can occur due to the following reasons:
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Event was generated when it was not necessary.
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Event fails to get persisted in the VMware Cloud Director database.
The Change Data Collector property screen is displayed.
4 Modify the property value and click Save.
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