User`s guide

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Email a Scheduled Report on page 116
A scheduled report can be automatically sent through an email to the required recipients when the report
gets generated.
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Advanced Search for Scheduled Reports on page 117
You can search for specific scheduled reports by using the advanced search feature of vCenter
Chargeback.
Scheduling Parameters
You can set various scheduling parameters while scheduling a report.
Report Creation Time
This is the time of the day when the report has to be generated. The time
specified is the time on the server when the report is generated. vCenter
Chargeback does not account for the time on the client machine.
Recurrence Pattern
This defines how often the report has to be generated. vCenter Chargeback
provides various options to define the recurrence pattern.
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Daily: A report is generated daily. The report is generated for the previous
day. The resource utilization and cost details are computed as per the
billing policy set in the cost model.
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Weekly: This option lets you select a seven-day reporting period as well
as the day on which the report has to be generated. The reporting period
considered is always the one that occurred before the reporting day. For
example, if the reporting period is set to Sunday–Saturday and the report
generation day as Thursday, the report generated every Thursday is for
the period Sunday through Saturday of the earlier week.
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Monthly: In this case, the reporting period is one month. You can select
the date of the month starting from which the billing has to be done. You
can also define a schedule policy that defines when the report has to be
generated. For example, suppose you want to generate a report on the 5th
of each month for the period from the 2nd of the previous month through
the 1st of the current month. In this case, you can specify the start billing
date for the month as 2 and the report generation day as 5, which is the
scheduling policy.
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Quarterly: This option lets you specify a date of the first month of a quarter
on which the report for the previous quarter has to be generated. The
quarters defined are January–March, April–June, July–September, and
October–December. For example, if the date is set to 5, then the report for
the period April through June is generated on the 5th of July and the report
for the period July through September will be generated on 5th of October.
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Half Yearly: This is similar to the Quarterly option. In this case, the report
is generated for a six-month duration. The report for the duration January
to June is generated on the set date in July. The report for the duration July
to December is generated on the set date in January.
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