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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
- Contents
- About the User's Guide
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Resource Based Authorization in vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Permissions Defined in vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Managing Roles
- Managing Users
- vCenter Chargeback Manager User Authentication
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Chargeback Manager 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 Manager Cost Elements
- Generating Reports
- Monitoring System Health
- Administration Utilities
- Index
Table 7-2. Section in the System Health Tab (Continued)
Section Information
Data Collectors Names of all the data collector instances along with name of the machine on which they are
installed is listed. When you move the cursor over the data collector name, a tool tip displays
the name of the data collector, the name of the host on which it is installed, and the status of the
data collector. If a data collector is not responding, then the data collector name becomes clickable
and links to the Data Collectors page on the Settings tab.
General Info This section provides information about the number of vCenter Servers added to the application
and the number of chargeback hierarchies and entities created. It also displays the URL and port
details for the SMTP server and the URL of the vCenter Chargeback Manager 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 Manager 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. The page automatically
refreshes every 9 minutes and can be manually refreshed by clicking the refresh icon. On all other tabs, if there
is no action, the user session times out after 30 minutes.
vCenter Chargeback Manager 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 7-3. 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 Manager. 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 Manager instances in a cluster are not in sync, the Event
Details tab does not display any event messages.
vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
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