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View Data Collectors
vCenter Chargeback stores and displays information about each data collector registered with the application.
The data collectors registered with the application and their corresponding details can be viewed from the
Settings tab.
Procedure
1 Click the Settings tab.
2 Click Data Collectors.
A table listing all the data collectors registered with the application and their corresponding details is displayed.
Registered Data Collectors
The Data Collectors page displays a table listing all the synchronization jobs that each registered data collector
is running for each vCenter Server added to the application. If multiple data collectors are running,
synchronization jobs are equally distributed among them.
Table 3-1 lists the information displayed on the Data Collectors page.
Table 3-1. Information About Data Collectors Registered in the Application
Information Type
Data Collector ID
Data Collector Heart Beat
Data Collector Host Name
Registered
Data Collector Name
vCenter Server Name
VMware, Inc.
Description
The ID of the data collector defined in vCenter Chargeback.
The time stamp when the data collector was last known to be running. The data collector
updates this information with vCenter Chargeback every 30 seconds. If vCenter
Chargeback does not receive any update from the data collector for more than 150
seconds, then vCenter Chargeback considers the data collector to be down and reassigns
the all jobs to another running data collector, if any.
The name of the machine on which the data collector is running.
Indicates if the data collector is enabled or disabled.
The name of the data collector provided during the installation.
The display name of the vCenter Server added to the application.
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