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Consumption Analytics Documentation |
The VMware vCloud Networking and Security Collector, introduced in Cloud Cruiser 3.3, is a native collector that retrieves data from vCloud Networking and Security Manager using its REST API.
VMware renamed its vShield product suite to vCloud Networking and Security. However, as late as at least version 5.5.0a the user interface and documentation still use the vShield name. For example, you might log in using a window titled vShield Manager.
This section contains the following articles:
The vCloud Networking and Security Collector collects configuration data about Edge Gateways (also known as Edge instances or Edges), creating resources from an Edge's subcomponents such as the number of network interfaces and firewall rules. You can collect data about all Edges or only specific ones, and can limit collection of most resource types to only those instances that are active in some way. For more information, see Mapping data to Cloud Cruiser. The vCloud Networking and Security Manager does not provide historical data, so the collector cannot collect for a date in the past. Every time you run the collector it retrieves real-time data, writing the current server date and time as the usage end date and time in the CC Records it creates.
The collector receives data from vCloud Networking and Security as XML documents, so mapping this data to identifiers and resources in Cloud Cruiser is done with XPath expressions. For more information, see Mapping data to Cloud Cruiser.
In this release, the vCloud Networking and Security Collector is compatible with version 3.0 of the vCloud Networking and Security REST API, which first appeared with version 5.1 of vCloud Networking and Security. For more information about this API, see the vShield API Programming Guide.
To set up regular collection and loading of data
<install_dir>/resource_groups/vcloud_networking_and_security.csv
.usageTimeZone
property as described in Time zones.The following sample job files are available in the <install_dir>/job_samples
directory:
vcloud-networking-and-security-sample-collect.xml
: Queries the vCloud Networking and Security API for configuration data about edge gateways and writes it to CC Record files.vcloud-networking-and-security-sample-load.xml
: Aggregates and transforms this data, then loads charges into the Cloud Cruiser database.This section lists the beans you need to write batch jobs that collect and process data from vCloud Networking and Security and provides pointers to their reference information.
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