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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started with Cloud Director
- Adding Resources to Cloud Director
- Adding vSphere Resources
- Adding Cloud Resources
- Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- External Networks
- Add an External Network
- Network Pools
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by VLAN IDs
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by vSphere Port Groups
- Set the MTU for a Network Pool Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Creating and Provisioning Organizations
- Creating a Published Catalog
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC
- Delete a Provider vDC
- Modify a Provider vDC Name and Description
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Host
- Prepare or Unprepare a Provider vDC Host
- Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider vDC Host
- Repair a Provider vDC ESX/ESXi Host
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Datastore
- Add Storage Capacity to a Provider vDC
- Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
- Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users
- Managing Organization vDCs
- Managing External Networks
- Managing Organization Networks
- Creating Organization Networks
- Configuring Network Services
- Reset an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Usage for an Organization Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool
- Modify an Organization Network Name and Description
- Modify an Organization Network DNS Settings
- Managing Network Pools
- Managing Cloud Cells
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Managing Organizations
- Enable or Disable an Organization
- Delete an Organization
- Modify an Organization Name
- Modify an Organization Full Name and Description
- Modify Organization LDAP Options
- Modify Organization Catalog Publishing Policy
- Modify Organization Email Preferences
- Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
- Add a Catalog to an Organization
- Managing Organization Resources
- Managing Organization Users and Groups
- Managing Organization vApps
- Managing System Administrators and Roles
- Add a System Administrator
- Import a System Administrator
- Enable or Disable a System Administrator
- Delete a System Administrator
- Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
- Send an Email Notification to Users
- Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
- Import an LDAP Group
- Delete an LDAP Group
- Change an LDAP Group Description
- Roles and Rights
- Create a Role
- Copy a Role
- Edit a Role
- Delete a Role
- Managing System Settings
- Monitoring Cloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
3 Click Remote Process and type the JMX service URL.
The URL consists of the host name or IP address of the Cloud Director server, followed by the port number.
For example, example.com:8999. The default port is 8999.
4 Type a Cloud Director system administrator user name and password and click Connect.
5 Click the MBeans tab.
Viewing the Cloud Director Logs
Cloud Director provides logging information for each cloud cell in the system. You can view the logs to monitor
your cells and to troubleshoot issues.
You can find the logs for a cell at /opt/vmware/cloud-director/logs. Table 10-1 lists the available logs.
Table 10-1. Cloud Director Logs
Log Name Description
cell.log Console output from the Cloud Director cell.
vcloud-container-debug.log Debug-level log messages from the cell.
vcloud-container-info.log Informational log messages from the cell. This log also shows
warnings or errors encountered by the cell.
vmware-vcd-watchdog.log Informational log messages from the cell watchdog. It
records when the cell crashes, is restarted, and so on
diagnostics.log Cell diagnostics log. This file is empty unless diagnostics
logging is enabled in the local logging configuration.
YYYY_MM_DD.request.log HTTP request logs in the Apache common log format.
You can use any text editor/viewer or third-party tool to view the logs.
Cloud Director and Cost Reporting
You can use VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.5 to configure a cost reporting system for VMware Cloud Director.
See the VMware vCenter Chargeback User's Guide for more information.
You can specify the number of days of chargeback history that Cloud Director saves. See “Modify General
System Settings,” on page 83.
Monitoring Quarantined Files
Cloud Director allows you to quarantine files (vApp templates and media files) that users upload to the system.
You can enable upload quarantine and use third-party tools (for example, a virus scanner) to process uploaded
files before Cloud Director accepts them.
You can use any Java Message Service (JMS) client that understands the STOMP protocol to monitor and
respond to messages from the Cloud Director quarantine service.
When an uploaded file is quarantined, a JMS broker sends a message to a request queue on a cloud cell. The
receiver decides whether to accept or reject the upload by sending a message to a response queue.
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