I’ve been
working on a public cloud solution for one of our vCloud Air Network Service Providers. I was creating some
automation for their billing system and one of the
tasks was to automatize the extraction of vCenter Chargeback Cost Reports, this
task is easily accomplished with vR Orchestrator.
vR
Orchestrator has a plug-in for vCenter Chargeback which allow us to connect to
it, generate reports and export it (among other things).
Sadly when I
was configuring the integration, I started receiving and error message stating
that Chargeback could not be added into vRO system.
The error
said: java.lang.Exception: Unable to login as the service is
not running on to the specified port
Immediately I started with
the basic troubleshoot scenario:
- Checked port
(443) communication between vRO and Chargeback . It was OK.
- Credential to
login on Chargeback. It was OK.
- SSL
Certificates. Just to make sure, I re-generate the certificate and re-import
into vRO. No problems here.
Since
everything looked perfectly fine I decided to open a case with VMware support.
The environment
was:
vRO: 5.5.2.1951762
(5.5.2.1946710)
vRO Plugin for Chargeback: 2.0.0.1
Chargeback: 2.6 (1445187)
vRO Plugin for Chargeback: 2.0.0.1
Chargeback: 2.6 (1445187)
After some
exchange of information and tests they figured out what was wrong.
vRO 5.5 uses
java 1.7 and the Chargeback SDK implemented on the plug-in could not establish
communication with that version of java.
The solution
was to update the plug-in to use a version compatible with java 1.7 of the vRO.
Once they
provided me the new plug-in I was able to configure Chargeback successfully.
I’m expecting that the new plug-in will be updated
at Solution Exchange very soon, meantime you can get the new version opening a case with VMware support,
mention my case (SR14548138010) and they can provide you the new plug-in.
I little bit of extra information, this issue does not happen on vRO 5.1.
BTW, is it Christmas already ?!?!
