Prerequisites
- You must have a password to log in to the vCloud Usage Meter console as root.
- You must start the SSHD service on the vCloud Usage Meter console.
- You must download the Virtual Machine History (VMH) report in advance.
Procedure
To de-anonymize your VMH reports, do the following:
Note: This procedure applies to Virtual Machine History reports only.
- Copy your Virtual Machine History report, e.g., vmh.tsv, to your Usage Meter appliance using WinSCP. In the example below, it is copied to /home/usagemeter.
- Log in to the vCloud Usage Meter console as usagemeter.
- Navigate to cloudusagemetering by running the command below:
cd /opt/vmware/cloudusagemetering
- To deanonymize the anonymized Virtual Machine History report, run the command.
./scripts/report_deanonymize.sh [location_of_anonymized_report] [destination_for_de-anonymized_report]
Example:
./scripts/report_deanonymize.sh /home/usagemeter/vmh.tsv /home/usagemeter/report.txt
Where /home/usagemeter/vmh.tsv is the location of where you have copied the Virtual Machine History report. And /home/usagemeter/report.txt is the location where you would like to have the decrypted report.
After successfully deanonymizing your report, a message is displayed. The de-anonymized report is located in the directory you specified during the de-anonymization.
- Copy the report.txt file to your local machine to view the decrypted information.