its okay to use a large window, say a month or two back for the start date and end date as today.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Indra Pramana <in...@sg.or.id> wrote: > Hi Ahmad, > > Thanks for your reply. I will try to use CloudMonkey to call the API. What > should I put the startdate and enddate? Shall I just put today's date or is > it OK for me to generate for say the last one week or one month? > > Looking forward to your reply, thank you. > > Cheers. > > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Ahmad Emneina <aemne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I typically use the root admin api calls generateUsageRecords[0] and >> listUsageRecords[1] to kickstart the process. When things refuse to >> cooperate; I've found it useful to nuke the entries in the db table >> cloud_usage.usage_job, restart the services (-management and -usage), and >> make the genUsage/listUsage api calls to get things back on track. I >> havent >> had to go to that extreme in a very long time, so try hitting the server >> with the api calls. hope that helps. >> >> [0]: >> >> https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.2/root_admin/generateUsageRecords.html >> [1]: >> >> https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.2/root_admin/listUsageRecords.html >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Indra Pramana <in...@sg.or.id> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > When I installed CloudStack, I also installed the CloudStack usage >> server >> > and the service seems to be running fine, I can stop and start the >> service >> > and the status is running. >> > >> > === >> > # service cloudstack-usage restart >> > * Stopping CloudStack Usage Monitor cloudstack-usage >> [ >> > OK ] >> > * Starting CloudStack Usage Monitor cloudstack-usage >> [ >> > OK ] >> > # service cloudstack-usage status >> > * cloudstack-usage is running >> > >> > I also have configured the usage server based on the documentation at >> this >> > URL: >> > >> > >> > >> https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html/Admin_Guide/configure-usage-server.html >> > >> > === >> > enable.usage.server = true >> > usage.aggregation.timezone = GMT >> > usage.execution.timezone = GMT >> > usage.stats.job.aggregation.range = 1440 >> > usage.stats.job.exec.time = 00:15 >> > === >> > >> > However, it seems that the usage server doesn't work as expected. I >> don't >> > see anything on the cloud_usage database, and the content of >> > /var/log/cloudstack/usage is also empty, so I can't find any logs >> > pertaining to the usage server. >> > >> > Anything I might have missed out? >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > >
