Logging. vCloud Director (NSX-T)

This article contains information about logging and monitoring of the vCloud Director (NSX-T) processing module. Basic metrics of statistics available from the module are listed.

vCloud Director log file

vCloud Director (NSX-T) processing module log file  — /usr/local/mgr5/var/pmvclouddirector.log  . The log contains detailed information about requests sent to vCloud Director (NSX-T) and the system's responses to those requests.
Information about the running task in the log is represented as XML:

<Task ... operation="Stopped Virtual Application qwe1(58b81329-ea2a-4f94-b999-1c36923a0340)" operationName="vappUndeployPowerOff" status="running">
...
</Task>

• operation — operation name;
• status — task status:
  
  • success — completed successfully;
  • error — failed in the end;
  • canceled — cancelled by the owner or administrator;
  • aborted — interrupted by the administrator;
  • running — is in progress.

XML may include child nodes:

• Error — provides error information in case the task failed;
• Progress — shows the task status as a percentage from 0 to 100.

Getting statistics

For each VDC, current statistics on the following metrics are available from vCloud Director:

• cpu_used — total number of processors in use for all VMs;
• cpu_in_mhz_used — total frequency (in MHz) of used processors for all VMs;
• ram_in_mb_used — total amount of memory used (in MB) for all VMs;
• disk_in_mb_used — total amount of discs used;
• disk_<Имя политики> — sum of used discs by policies;
• gateway_count — the number of Edge Gateway at VDC;
• vdc_network_count — the number of VDC Network on the VDC;
• vapp_network_count — the number of vApp Networks on the VDC;
• vm_count — number of VMs per VDC.