1. No. APIs are for users, not for cloudstack. There is a thread running at the scheduled time. 2. No, generateUsageRecords API adds an usage job in database cloud_usage.usage_job. 3. There is a thread named Heartbeat in usage server which running every minute. It checks the database and generates the usage records from last usage job. 4. see 3. 5. I do not know.
-Wei 2013/6/16 CK <cloudw...@gmail.com> > Can anyone help with my queries...? > > > On 10 June 2013 09:21, CK <cloudw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Can someone please provide further information on what the API call: > > generateUsageRecords actually does? > > > > I know it generates usage records, but: > > > > 1. Does the Usage Server service call the generateUsageRecords API when > > it runs at the scheduled time(=usage.stats.job.exec.time) or does the > > service do more than that? > > > > 2. Does the generateUsageRecords API execute the Usage Server service on > > demand to generate the usage records? > > > > 3. For what period does it generate the usage records eg. > > i. from the last time this API function was called > > ii. from the last time the usage server ran > > > > 4. If I create a VM and the corresponding ACS events are created in the > > Cloud DB, if I then run generateUsageRecords soon after will the usage > > records be generated for up to that point? > > > > 5. Are there any other documented details available on this API command > > other than the API document? > > >
