Accessing The Vcenter Chargeback Application; Data Collector - VMware VCENTER CHARGEBACK 1.5 Manual

VMware vCenter
Chargeback - vShield
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VMware vCenter
Chargeback - vShield
Manager DataCollector
Managing Application-Related Services
All the services required for successfully running and accessing vCenter Chargeback are configured to start
automatically when the machine is powered on and the operating system is started. You can also manually
control these services.
Procedure
1 Select the relevant service menu from the Start > Programs > VMware > VMware vCenter Chargeback >
vCenter Chargeback Services menu.
The menu provides shortcuts for the following services:
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VMware vCenter Chargeback DataCollector
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VMware vCenter Chargeback Load Balancer
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VMware vCenter Chargeback - VMware Cloud Director DataCollector
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VMware vCenter Chargeback - vShield Manager DataCollector
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2 Select the relevant shortcut to start or stop a service from the selected service menu.

Accessing the vCenter Chargeback Application

If all the required services are running, you can access vCenter Chargeback through a supported Web browser.
Procedure
1 Click Launch Chargeback Homepage from the Start > Programs > VMware > VMware vCenter
Chargeback menu.
2 Enter the login credentials, and click Login.

Data Collector

vCenter Chargeback interacts with the vCenter Server and vCenter Server database through a data collector.
The data collector synchronizes the information in the vCenter Chargeback database with that in the vCenter
Server database.
This release of vCenter Chargeback provides two more data collectors. These are the VMware Cloud Director
Data Collector and the vShield Manager Data Collector. These data collectors enable you to integrate VMware
Cloud Director with vCenter Chargeback.
vCenter Chargeback support VMware Cloud Director 1.0 and the versions of vShield Manager supported by
VMware Cloud Director 1.0.
The VMware Cloud Director Data Collector polls the VMware Cloud Director database for chargeback events.
These events details are used to call specific vCenter Chargeback APIs. A chargeback hierarchy for each
organization in the VMware Cloud Director setup is created in vCenter Chargeback and also the corresponding
allocation details are set on the entities.
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Starting this service starts the vShield Manager Data Collector instance that
was installed along with the vCenter Chargeback application.
Starting this service starts the vShield Manager Data Collector instance that
was installed individually (in this case, the name of the instance is vShield
Manager DataCollector) and not with the application.
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