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krjm
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‎10-17-2012 03:32 PM

Using the Java api to get details about an entity in Chargeback

I am trying to find a way by using the Chargeback Java API to get details about an entity.

For example, there is a VM in the Chargeback heiarchy.  How do I get the ip address for that VM using Chargeback?

Keith

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HemanthPannem
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‎10-18-2012 02:03 AM

Hi

Could you please elaborate your use case and why do you need this functionality from Chargeback product? Chargeback only gets the details of a VM that it needs for calculating cost. IP address of a VM is not fetched. You may need to contact the vCenter server directly to get this information.

Regards,

Hemanth

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jgiland
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‎10-18-2012 02:13 AM

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krjm
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‎10-18-2012 05:23 AM

So we have to integrate the data that is in Vmware back into the company’s CMDB. I was just wondering if details like the IP, OS, datastore, metadata that is in VCD, and other like details could be pulled from the Chargeback so that they could be pushed into the cmdb.

In sounds like we will need to use the VCD api to fetch the details.

So if we poll the events from Chargeback via the api, how do we correlate the event Id to the entity in VDC so that we can gather more detail information?

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