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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
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy are not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Index
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Chapter 8 System Health, Utilities, and Troubleshooting
Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy are not Reflected in vCenter
Chargeback
IftherearechangestothevCenterServerhierarchy,thesechangescanbeviewedbyclickingtherefreshbutton
nexttothevCenterServerhierarchyinthevCenterChargebackapplication.Thisrefreshbuttonisdisplayed
onlyifthereisachangeinthevCenterServ erhierarchyandtheHierarchyManagertab
isrefreshed.Thetab
canberefreshedbyuseractions,suchasclickinganothertaboftheapplicationandthenclickingtheManage
Hierarchytab.
Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
AprobablereasoncouldbethattheprimarygroupdoesnotcomeundertheprovidedbaseDN.Onlythe
groupsandusersdefinedunderthespecifiedDNintheActiveDirectoryhierarchycanbeviewedfromand
addedtovCenterChargeback.
Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
Checkwhetheralltherelevantservicesarerunning.Thefollowingservicesmustbestartedandrunning:
VMwarevCenterChargebackService
VMwarevCenterChargebackLoadBalancerService
VMwarevCenterChargebackDataCollector
Ifalltherequiredservicesarestartedandrunning,checkwhethertheWindowsFirewallisenabledonthe
machineonwhichvCenterChargebackandtheloadbalancerisinstalledandrunning.IfWindowsFirewallis
enabled,ensurethatportexceptionsareaddedfortheHTTP,loadbalancer,
andHTTPSportsthatare
configuredforvCenterChargebackduringtheinstallation.