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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
What to do next
If you modify the vCloud Director URL, the database details, or the unprocessed event lifetime values, you
must restart the data collector for the change to take effect.
You can test the connection to the vCloud Director database by clicking the Test VMware Cloud Director
database connection link. This link is available only if you integrate with a vCloud Director 1.5.x setup.
Configure vShield Manager Data Collector
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.
The vShield Manager data collector cannot function if the user name and password for the vShield Manager
instances are not set. After installing the vShield Manager data collector, the vShield Manager instances do not
appear immediately in vCenter Chargeback Manager. You can see these instances in vCenter Chargeback
Manager only after the VMware vCloud Director data collector processes the vShield Manager-related events.
Only users with the Super User role assigned to them can perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, click Data Collectors.
2 Select the vShield Manager tab.
3 Select the property from the vShield Manager common properties section and click Edit.
You can modify the job interval for the external traffic statistics collector job run by the vShield Manager
data collector. vShield Manager data collector runs a job that collects broadband statistics from vShield
Manager for all the registered networks. The broadband statistics collector job interval defines the time in
seconds between two such job runs.
The Change Data Collector Property screen is displayed.
4 Modify the property value and click Save.
5 Select the required instance from the vShield Manager instances section and click Edit.
The Edit vShield Manager Setting screen is displayed.
6 Modify the property values and click Save.
You can modify the following settings for the selected vShield Manager instance.
Property Description
Host
Host name or IP address of the vShield Manager instance.
User name
User name used to connect to the vShield Manager instance.
Password
Password for the user.
Confirm password
Password for the user.
What to do next
If you modify the External traffic statistics collector job interval property value, you must restart the data
collector for the change to take effect. You need not restart the data collector if you have made modifications
only to the vShield Manager instances.
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