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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback
- Installing vCenter Chargeback
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Prerequisites for vCenter Chargeback
- Download and Extract the vCenter Chargeback Installer
- Install vCenter Chargeback
- Create a vCenter Chargeback Cluster
- Install vCenter Chargeback with an Existing Database Schema
- Upgrading vCenter Chargeback
- Services Related to the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Accessing the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Data Collector
- Uninstall vCenter Chargeback
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Chargeback 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 Cost Elements
- Generating Reports
- Monitoring System Health
- Administration Utilities
- Troubleshooting vCenter Chargeback
- Troubleshooting Utility
- Troubleshooting Issues in vCenter Chargeback
- Changed Timezone Setting Is Not Reflected
- Changes to Chargeback Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in the Concurrent User-Sessions
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Installer Throws the SQL Driver Not Found Error
- LDAP Server Configuration Fails
- Non-English Characters Are Not Correctly Stored in the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Report Does Not Display the Disk Read and Disk Write Information
- Report Does Not Display the Memory Usage Value and the Corresponding Cost
- Report Does Not Display the Network Transmitted and Network Received Information
- Service Temporarily Unavailable Error
- Status of Failed Data Collector Is Not Reflected Immediately on the System Health Tab
- Storage Synchronization Job Fails
- Text and Messages on the vCenter Chargeback User Interface Are Not Correctly Displayed
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Unable to Add an LDAP Server
- Unable to Add vCenter Server in vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Change the Password for the vCenter Chargeback Keystore
- Unable to Configure Another VMware Cloud Director Setup with vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Server Database
- Unable to Email Report
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Unable to Use Custom SSL Certificates
- Unable to View the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In in the VI Client
- Index
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New password
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Confirmation of the new password
3 Restart the vCenter Chargeback service and the data collector services.
What to do next
If you have installed the VMware Cloud Director Data Collector and vShield Manager Data Collector with
vCenter Chargeback 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 IP Address Reset Utility
If vCenter Chargeback is installed on a machine that does not have a static IP address and the IP address
changes dynamically, then the vCenter Chargeback service might not function properly. vCenter Chargeback,
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 database and the embedded data
collectors.
Reset vCenter Chargeback IP Address
If the IP address of the machine on which vCenter Chargeback is installed is changed, you must reset the IP
address for the vCenter Chargeback in the database and other configuration files by running the IP address
reset utility.
Prerequisites
You must have execute access permission on the machine on which vCenter Chargeback is installed.
Procedure
1 From the command prompt run the UpdateCbmServer.bat file located at
Installation_Directory
\vCenter-CB-Tools\reset-IP\bin.
2 Provide the requested information and press Enter.
Information Description
New IP address
The new IP address of the machine on which vCenter Chargeback is installed.
Existing IP address
The old IP address of the machine on which vCenter Chargeback is installed.
Database type
The type of database used to create the vCenter Chargeback database. The
database type can be either Oracle or SQL Server.
Database URL
The URL to connect to the vCenter Chargeback database.
Database user name
User name to access the vCenter Chargeback database.
Database password
Password for the user name provided.
IP address for the data collector
IP address of the machine on which the data collector is installed.
3 Press the Y key to confirm the information provided.
The IP address for vCenter Chargeback is modified in the database and relevant configuration files.
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