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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
Procedure
1 Run the database password change utility from the command prompt.
cd
Installation_Directory
\vCenter-CB-Tools\database-update\bin
UpdateChargebackDatabaseCredentials.bat
You can also run this utility by selecting Update Chargeback Database Credentials from the Start >
Programs > VMware > VMware vCenter Chargeback > vCenter Chargeback Tools menu.
2 Enter the existing and new passwords.
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Existing password
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New password
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Confirmation of the new password
3 Restart the vCenter Chargeback Manager service and the data collector services.
What to do next
If you have installed the vCloud Director data collector and vShield Manager data collector with vCenter
Chargeback Manager or individually installed any of the data collectors, then you must copy the
hibernate.cfg.xml file from the
Installation_Directory
/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps/vCenter-CB/WEB-
INF/classes folder to the
Installation_Directory
/
Data_Collector_Name
/classes folder for each data
collector. You must restart the data collectors after copying the hibernate.cfg.xml file.
vCenter Chargeback Manager IP Address Reset Utility
If vCenter Chargeback Manager is installed on a machine that does not have a static IP address and the IP
address changes dynamically, then the vCenter Chargeback Manager service might not function properly.
vCenter Chargeback Manager, therefore, provides a utility to reset the IP address in the database and the
relevant configuration files.
The IP reset utility is located in
Installation_Directory
\vCenter-CB-Tools\reset-IP\bin and the utility file
is UpdateCbmServer.bat. This utility updates the IP address references for the vCenter Chargeback Manager
database and the embedded data collectors.
If you have installed vCenter Chargeback Manager and the load balancer on different machines, then you must
update the vCenter Chargeback Manager IP address on the load balancer by running the
Installation_Directory
\vCenter-CB-Tools\load-balancer\bin\ModifyLBWorker.bat file.
If the IP address of the load-balancer is changed, then you must run the
Installation_Directory
\vCenter-CB-
Tools\load-balancer\bin\ModifyLBWorker.bat file on the load balancer machine and the
Installation_Directory
\vCenter-CB-Tools\reset-IP\bin\UpdateLoadBalancerIP.bat file on the vCenter
Chargeback Manager machine to ensure that the new IP address is reflected in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
Reset vCenter Chargeback Manager IP Address
If the IP address of the machine on which vCenter Chargeback Manager is installed is changed, you must reset
the IP address for the vCenter Chargeback Manager in the database and other configuration files by running
the IP address reset utility.
Ensure that you run this tool from the machine on which vCenter Chargeback Manager is installed.
Prerequisites
You must have execute access permission on the machine on which vCenter Chargeback Manager is installed.
vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
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