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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- vCloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Getting Started with vCloud Director
- Adding Resources to vCloud 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
- Add a Resource Pool 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
- Configure DHCP for an Organization Network
- Enable the Firewall for an Organization Network
- Add a Firewall Rule for an Organization Network
- Reorder Firewall Rules for an Organization Network
- Enable IP Masquerading for an Organization Network
- Add External IP Addresses to an Organization Network
- Configure Port Forwarding for an Organization Network
- Configure IP Translation for an Organization Network
- Reorder NAT Mapping Rules for an Organization Network
- Enable Site-to-Site VPN for an Organization Network
- Create a VPN Tunnel Within an Organization
- Create a VPN Tunnel Between Organizations
- Create a VPN Tunnel to a Remote Network
- Enable Static Routing for an Organization Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to the Same Organization Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to Different Organization Networks
- Reset an Organization Network
- View vApps and vApp Templates That Use an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Use 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
- View Syslog Server Settings for an Organization Network
- Apply Syslog Server Settings to an Organization Network
- 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 and Virtual Machines
- 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
- Modify General System Settings
- General System Settings
- Configure SMTP Settings
- Configure System Notification Settings
- Configuring Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- Configuring the System LDAP Settings
- Customize the vCloud Director Client UI
- Configure the Public Web URL
- Configure the Public Console Proxy Address
- Configure the Public REST API Base URL
- Configure the Account Lockout Policy
- Monitoring vCloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
Using vCloud Director's JMX Service
Each vCloud Director server host exposes a number of MBeans through JMX to allow for operational
management of the server and to provide access to internal statistics.
Access the JMX Service by Using JConsole
You
can use any JMX client to access the vCloud Director JMX service. JConsole is an example of a JMX client.
For more information about the MBeans exposed by vCloud Director, see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026065.
Prerequisites
The host name of the vCloud Director host to which you connect must be resolvable by DNS using forward
and reverse lookup of the fully-qualified domain name or the unqualified hostname.
Procedure
1 Start JConsole.
2 In the Connection menu, select New Connection.
3 Click Remote Process and type the JMX service URL.
The URL consists of the host name or IP address of the vCloud Director server, followed by the port
number. For example, example.com:8999. The default port is 8999.
4 Type a vCloud Director system administrator user name and password and click Connect.
5 Click the MBeans tab.
Viewing the vCloud Director Logs
vCloud 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. vCloud Director Logs
Log Name Description
cell.log Console output from the vCloud 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.
vCloud Director and Cost Reporting
You can use VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.5 to configure a cost reporting system for VMware vCloud
Director.
See the VMware vCenter Chargeback User's Guide for more information.
vCloud Director Administrator's Guide
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