VMware VCENTER CHARGEBACK 1.5 Manual page 52

vCenter Chargeback User's Guide
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, click Data Collectors.
A table listing all the data collectors registered with the application is displayed.
2 Select the data collector that you want to delete, and click Delete.
A dialog box confirming you action is displayed.
3 Click OK to confirm deletion.
The data collector is deleted and the synchronization jobs associated with the data collector are assigned to
other registered data collectors, if any.
Configure VMware Cloud Director Data Collector
If you have installed the VMware Cloud Director Data Collector, you must configure its properties from the
Cloud Data Collectors page of the Settings tab.
Only users with the Super User role assigned to them can perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, click Cloud Data Collectors.
2 Select the VMware Cloud Director tab.
3 Select a property and click Edit.
You can edit several properties for VMware Cloud Director Data Collector.
Property
VMware Cloud Director database
host
VMware Cloud Director database
name
VMware Cloud Director database
port
VMware Cloud Director database
username
VMware Cloud Director database
password
Event processor job interval (in
seconds)
Failed events processor job interval
(in seconds)
Unprocessed chargeback event
lifetime (in seconds)
The Change Data Collector property screen is displayed.
4 Modify the property value and click Save.
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Description
IP address of the VMware Cloud Director database.
Name of the VMware Cloud Director database.
Port on which the VMware Cloud Director database is listening for request.
If no port details are specified, vCenter Chargeback considers the default
database port.
VMware Cloud Director database user name.
Password for the VMware Cloud Director database user.
VMware Cloud Director Data Collector runs a job that reads and processes
the chargeback events in VMware Cloud Director. This property defines the
time in seconds between two such job runs. If the time between two job runs
is too large, then virtual machines that are created and removed within this
time frame might not be accounted for by vCenter Chargeback during cost
calculation.
VMware Cloud Director Data Collector runs a job to clear failed chargeback
events in VMware Cloud Director. This property defines the time in seconds
between two such job runs.
This property defines the time for which an unprocessed event is retained in
the database. After this lifetime period, events are removed from the
database because they are in an inconsistent state and cannot be processed.
Inconsistency can occur due to the following reasons:
Event was generated when it was not necessary.
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Event fails to get persisted in the VMware Cloud Director database.
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