Monitoring Cloud Director; Viewing Tasks And Events - VMware CLOUD DIRECTOR 1.0 Admin Manual

Monitoring Cloud Director

System administrators can monitor completed and in-progress operations and view resource usage
information at the provider vDC, organization vDC, and datastore level.
This chapter includes the following topics:

"Viewing Tasks and Events,"

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"View Usage Information for a Provider vDC,"
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"View Usage Information for an Organization vDC,"
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"Using Cloud Director's JMX Service,"
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"Viewing the Cloud Director Logs,"
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"Cloud Director and Cost Reporting,"
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"Monitoring Quarantined Files,"
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Viewing Tasks and Events
You can view system tasks and events and organization tasks and events to monitor and audit Cloud Directory
activities.
Cloud Director tasks represent long-running operations and their status changes as the task progresses. For
example, a task's status generally starts as
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Error
Cloud Director events represent one-time occurrences that typically indicate an important part of an operation
or a significant state change for a Cloud Director object. For example, Cloud Director logs an event when a
user initiates the creation an organization vDC and another event when the process completes. Cloud 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
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The log can also include debug information, depending on your Cloud Director settings. See
Settings," on page 83.
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. When the task finishes, its status changes to
Running
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Successful
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