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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
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Configure VMware Cloud Director Data Collector on page 26
If you have installed the Cloud Director Data Collector, you must configure its properties from the Data
Collectors page of the Settings tab.
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Configure vShield Manager Data Collector on page 27
If you have installed the vShield Manager Data Collector, you must specify the user name and password
to access the vShield Manager instances. You can set this access information from the Data Collectors
page of the Settings tab.
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Modify Super User Password for Cloud Data Collectors on page 28
If you change the password of the super user that was used when installing the VMware Cloud Director
Data Collector and vShield Manager Data Collector, you must change the same from the Data Collectors
page to ensure that these data collectors function correctly.
View Data Collectors
vCenter Chargeback Manager stores and displays information about each data collector registered with the
application. The data collectors registered with the application and their corresponding details can be viewed
from the Settings tab.
Procedure
1 Click the Settings tab.
2 Click Data Collectors.
A table listing all the data collectors registered with the application and their corresponding details is displayed.
Registered Data Collectors
The Data Collectors page displays a table listing all the synchronization jobs that each registered data collector
is running for each vCenter Server added to the application. If multiple data collectors are running,
synchronization jobs are equally distributed among them.
The data collector runs two types of synchronization jobs: polling jobs and listening jobs. Polling jobs are jobs
that run periodically at fixed interval of time and poll the vCenter Server database to fetch the changes in the
database. Each time the job run completes, the last synchronization time for the job is updated. Stats
Synchronization and Storage Synchronization are polling jobs.
Listening jobs start once and perform the initial synchronization. These jobs then register a listener with the
vCenter Server database and listen continuously for any update. These jobs run continuously and are not
periodic. They are always in the Running state and never set to Done. These jobs update their status and the
last synchronization time only when an update in the vCenter Server database, for which the job is listening,
is processed successfully.
Table 2-1 lists the information displayed on the Data Collectors page.
Table 2-1. Information About Data Collectors Registered in the Application
Information Type Description
Data Collector ID The ID of the data collector defined in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
Data Collector Heart Beat The time stamp when the data collector was last known to be running. The data collector
updates this information with vCenter Chargeback Manager every 30 seconds. If vCenter
Chargeback Manager does not receive any update from the data collector for more than
150 seconds, then vCenter Chargeback Manager considers the data collector to be down
and reassigns the all jobs to another running data collector, if any.
Data Collector Host Name The name of the machine on which the data collector is running.
Registered Indicates if the data collector is enabled or disabled.
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