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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
Delete Data Collector
A data collector registered with the application can be removed or deleted.
IMPORTANT If only a single data collector is running, do not delete it. If deleted, the synchronization jobs will
not run and the data in the vCenter Chargeback Manager database will not be in sync with the data in the
vCenter Server.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, clickData Collectors.
A table listing all the data collectors registered with the application is displayed.
2 Select the data collector that you want to delete, and click Delete.
A dialog box confirming you action is displayed.
3 Click OK to confirm deletion.
The data collector is deleted and the synchronization jobs associated with the data collector are assigned to
other registered data collectors, if any.
Configure VMware vCloud Director Data Collector
If you have installed the vCloud Director data collector, you must configure its properties from the Data
Collectors page of the Settings tab.
Only users with the Super User role assigned to them can perform this task.
Configuring the vCloud Director data collector ensures that vCenter Chargeback Manager related events in
the vCloud Director are processed. Based on the vCloud Director version, the data collector properties that
can be configured differ.
If you are integrating a vCloud Director 5.1 setup, then the corresponding database information is not required.
NOTE Only the vCenter Chargeback Manager related events are processed by the vCloud Director data
collector. To update the vCloud Director Org hierarchies in vCenter Chargeback Manager, the corresponding
vCenter Server must be added to vCenter Chargeback Manager and the vCenter Chargeback Manager data
collector must be running to synchronize the vCenter Chargeback Manager database with the vCenter Server
database. If the vCenter Chargeback Manager data collector is not installed or is not running, then the changes
will not be processed and the changes in the vCenter Server and the vCloud Director Org hierarchy is not
accounted for in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, click Data Collectors.
2 Select the VMware Cloud Director tab.
3 Select a property and click Edit.
You can edit several properties for vCloud Director Data Collector.
Property Description
VMware vCloud Director URL
The IP address or the FQDN of the machine on which vCloud Director is
installed and running.
VMware vCloud Director
Administrator Username
User name of a vCloud Director Administrator user. The user must be an
administrator user to ensure that all the API calls from the data collector to
the vCloud Director are processed.
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