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Charging departments for storage use 31
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Charging departments for storage use
The examples below demonstrates two different ways in which a CEO can track
storage use by departments and charge them accordingly.
Charging departments for storage resource usage
For the purposes of this example, the enterprise’s storage resources (hosts, arrays,
file systems and databases) are sorted into Ionix ControlCenter user-defined groups
by the departments that use them. The CTO uses StorageScope’s Query Builder to
determine data usage by department and, based on the results of the query, can then
charge departments accordingly for their storage needs.
To build the query, the CTO:
1. Selects Analysis > Queries > Query Builder.
2. Selects Create and the Query Builder Wizard opens.
Note: For full documentation of the Query Builder, refer to the StorageScope
online help. The procedures listed below are described in detail under
“Identifying IT assets for accounting” on page 8.
3. On the Define Initial Settings step of the wizard, chooses a Name, Description,
Category, and Time Period for the query.
4. Selects the following Areas of Interest for the query:
•Hosts: Chargeback
•Groups
•All Groups
5. On the Select Columns step of the Query Wizard, chooses the following columns
and orders them as shown below:
•All Groups.Group Name
• All Groups .Group Path
• Chargeback.# Subgroups
• Chargeback.# Physical Hosts
• Chargeback.# Databases