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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback
- Installing vCenter Chargeback
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Create a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Manage a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Server Entity
- Add a vCenter Chargeback 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
- Share Virtual Machine Cost
- View Properties of a vCenter Server Entity
- Creating and Configuring a Cost Model
- Generating Reports
- System Health, Utilities, and Troubleshooting
- System Health
- Events
- Utilities
- Troubleshooting
- Unable to Send Report Through Email
- Storage Syncing Job Fails
- Unable to use Custom SSL Certificates
- Unable to View the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In in the VI Client
- Report Does not Display the Memory Usage Value and the Corresponding Cost
- Report Does not Display the Network Transmitted and Network Received Stats
- Report Does not Display the Disk Read and Disk Write Stats
- Unable to Add vCenter Server in vCenter Chargeback
- Changed Timezone Setting is not Reflected
- Installer Throws the SQL Driver not Found Error
- Status of Failed Data Collector is not Reflected Immediately on the System Health tab
- Non-English Characters are not Correctly Stored in the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Service Temporarily Unavailable Error Thrown when Accessing vCenter Chargeback
- Text and Messages on the vCenter Chargeback User Interface are not Correctly Displayed
- Error Occurs While Importing a Hierarchy from a CSV File
- Changes to Chargeback Hierarchy are not Reflected in the Concurrent User-Sessions
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Unable to Remove the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In from the VI Client
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Index
vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
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Thedatapurgingscriptsprovidedare:
purgeCostData:Thisscriptremovesthecost‐relateddatathatisolderthanthespecifiednumberof
months.ThenumberofmonthsisspecifiedusingtheMONTHS_IN_HISTORYparameterintheOraclescript
andthe@MONTHS_IN_HISTORYparameterintheSQLServerscript.Youcansetthisparameter
appropriatelybeforerunningthescript.
Thescriptremovesthedatafromthefollowingtables:
CB_BASE_RATE
CB_BILLING_POLICY
CB_ENTITY_METERING
CB_RATE_FACTOR
CB_FIXED_COST
ThescriptcorrespondinglymovesthedatatothefollowingCSVfiles:
CBBaseRate.csv
CBBillingPolicy.csv
CBEntityMetering.csv
CBRateFactor.csv
CBFixedCost.csv
purgeHierarchyData:Thisscriptremovesthehierarchy‐relateddatathatisolderthanthespecified
numberofmonths.ThenumberofmonthsisspecifiedusingtheMONTHS_IN_HISTORYparameterinthe
Oraclescriptandthe@MONTHS_IN_HISTORYparameterintheSQLServerscript.Youcansetthis
parameterappropriatelybeforerunningthescript.
Thescriptremovesthedatafromthefollowingtables:
CB_VC_ENTITY_RELATION
CB_VC_ENTITY_PROPERTY
CB_VC_ENTITY_MAPPING
CB_HIERARCHY_RELATION
ThescriptcorrespondinglymovesthedatatothefollowingCSVfiles:
CBVCEntityRelation.csv
CBVCEntityProperty.csv
CBVCEntityMapping.csv
CBHierarchyRelation.csv
purgeReportData:Thisscriptremovesthereport‐relateddatathatisolderthanthespecifiednumberof
months.ThenumberofmonthsisspecifiedusingtheMONTHS_IN_HISTORYparameterintheOraclescript
andthe@MONTHS_IN_HISTORYparameterintheSQLServerscript.Youcansetthisparameter
appropriatelybeforerunningthescript.
ThescriptremovesthedatafromtheCB_REPORTtableandmoves
ittotheCBReport.csvfile.
purgeTables:ThisscriptisasupersetofthepurgeCostData,purgeHierarchyData,and
purgeReportDatascripts.Thescriptremovesthecost,hierarchy,andreportrelateddatathatisolderthan
thespecifiednumberofmonths.ThenumberofmonthsisspecifiedusingtheMONTHS_IN_HISTORY
parameterintheOraclescriptandthe@MONTHS_IN_HISTORY
parameterintheSQLServerscript.The
scriptsremovesthedatafromthevCenterChargebacktablesandmovesittothecorresspondingCSVfiles.
purgeStatsData:Thisscriptremovestheperformancestatisticsdatathatisolderthanthespecifieddate
hasthespecifiedsampleinterval.ThedateisspecifiedusingthePURGE_BEFOREparameterintheOracle
scriptandthe$PURGE_BEFOREparameterintheSQLServerscript.Theintervalisspecifiedusingthe
REQ_INTERVALparameterin
theOraclescriptandthe@REQ_INTERVALparameterintheSQLServer
script.Youcansettheseparametersappropriatelybeforerunningthescript.Thescriptremovesthedata
fromtheCB_VC_PERFORMANCE_STATtableandmovesittotheCBVCPerformanceStat.csvfile.