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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
vCenter Chargeback Manager also sends an alert if any of the data collector jobs is not assigned to an available
data collector.
NOTE If the vCenter Chargeback Manager database, a stand-alone vCenter Chargeback Manager, or the SMTP
Server goes down, no email alert is sent. However, an email alert is sent when the SMTP Server is restored.
Prerequisites
You must ensure that the SMTP Server is configured in the vCenter Chargeback Manager for the email alert
to be sent. If an SMTP Server is not configured in vCenter Chargeback Manager, the alert notification cannot
be configured. To know about configuring an SMTP Server in vCenter Chargeback Manager, see “Configure
the SMTP Server Setting,” on page 12.
Procedure
1 On the System Health tab, select Notification Alert under Alert Settings.
2 Enter the email address to which the alert notification should be sent.
The default email address is the email address provided during vCenter Chargeback Manager installation.
3 Select the frequency for the email notification.
Option Description
Daily
An email is sent every day at 00:00 hours listing only the components that
are down. Also, an email alert is sent whenever a component goes down or
comes back up after a downtime.
Hourly
An email is sent every hour listing only the components that are down. Also,
an email alert is sent whenever a component goes down or comes back up
after a downtime.
Once
An email alert is sent only once whenever a component goes down or comes
back up after a downtime.
4 Click Apply.
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.
Create Time The date and time when the event occurred.
Category 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.
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