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Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Open.
3 Click the My Cloud tab and click Logs in the left pane.
4 Click the Events tab.
vCloud Director displays information about each organization-level event.
5 (Optional) Double-click an event for more information.
Only system administrators can view the details about most events.
Monitor and Manage Blocking Tasks
You can monitor and manage tasks that are in a pending state as a result of blocking.
Although, you can monitor and manage blocking tasks using the vCloud Director Web console, it is
generally expected that an external piece of code will listen for AMQP notifications and programmatically
respond using the vCloud API.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Blocking Tasks in the left pane.
2 Right-click a task and select and action.
Option Description
Resume
Resumes the task.
Abort
Aborts the task and deletes objects that were created as part of the task.
Fail
Fails the task but does not clean up objects that were created as part of the
task. The status of the task and its objects is set to Error.
3 Type a reason and click OK.
View Usage Information for a Provider Virtual Datacenter
Provider virtual datacenters supply compute, memory, and storage resources to organization virtual
datacenters. You can monitor provider virtual datacenter resources and add more resources if necessary.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider VDCs in the left pane.
2 Click the Monitor tab.
vCloud Director displays information about CPU, memory, and storage for each provider virtual
datacenter.
View Usage Information for an Organization Virtual Datacenter
Organization virtual datacenters supply compute, memory, and storage resources to organizations. You can
monitor organization virtual datacenter resources and add more resources if necessary.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organization VDCs in the left pane.
2 Click the Monitor tab.
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