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System administrators can monitor completed and in-progress operations and view resource usage
information at the provider virtual datacenter, organization virtual datacenter, and datastore level.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Viewing Tasks and Events,” on page 141
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“Monitor and Manage Blocking Tasks,” on page 143
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“View Usage Information for a Provider Virtual Datacenter,” on page 143
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“View Usage Information for an Organization Virtual Datacenter,” on page 143
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“Using vCloud Director's JMX Service,” on page 144
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“Viewing the vCloud Director Logs,” on page 144
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“vCloud Director and Cost Reporting,” on page 145
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“Monitoring Quarantined Files,” on page 145
Viewing Tasks and Events
You can view system tasks and events and organization tasks and events to monitor and audit vCloud
Directory activities.
vCloud Director tasks represent long-running operations and their status changes as the task progresses. For
example, a task's status generally starts as Running. When the task finishes, its status changes to Successful
or Error.
vCloud Director events represent one-time occurrences that typically indicate an important part of an
operation or a significant state change for a vCloud Director object. For example, vCloud Director logs an
event when a user initiates the creation an organization virtual datacenter and another event when the
process completes. vCloud Director also logs an event every time a user logs in and notes whether the
attempt was successful or not.
View Ongoing and Completed System Tasks
View the system log to monitor system-level tasks that are in progress, to find and troubleshoot failed tasks,
and to view tasks by owner.
To view information about organization-level tasks, see “View Ongoing and Completed Organization
Tasks,” on page 142.
The log can also include debug information, depending on your vCloud Director settings. See “General
System Settings,” on page 129.
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