1.0.1
Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback
- Installing vCenter Chargeback
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Create a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Manage a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Server Entity
- Add a vCenter Chargeback Entity
- Rename a Chargeback Hierarchy or a Chargeback Entity
- Delete an Entity from the Hierarchy
- Delete a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Assign Attributes
- Move Entities Within a Hierarchy
- Share Virtual Machine Cost
- View Properties of a vCenter Server Entity
- Creating and Configuring a Cost Model
- Generating Reports
- System Health, Utilities, and Troubleshooting
- System Health
- Events
- Utilities
- Troubleshooting
- Unable to Send Report Through Email
- Storage Syncing Job Fails
- Unable to use Custom SSL Certificates
- Unable to View the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In in the VI Client
- Report Does not Display the Memory Usage Value and the Corresponding Cost
- Report Does not Display the Network Transmitted and Network Received Stats
- Report Does not Display the Disk Read and Disk Write Stats
- Unable to Add vCenter Server in vCenter Chargeback
- Changed Timezone Setting is not Reflected
- Installer Throws the SQL Driver not Found Error
- Status of Failed Data Collector is not Reflected Immediately on the System Health tab
- Non-English Characters are not Correctly Stored in the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Service Temporarily Unavailable Error Thrown when Accessing vCenter Chargeback
- Text and Messages on the vCenter Chargeback User Interface are not Correctly Displayed
- Error Occurs While Importing a Hierarchy from a CSV File
- Changes to Chargeback Hierarchy are not Reflected in the Concurrent User-Sessions
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Unable to Remove the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In from the VI Client
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Index
vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
4 VMware, Inc.
ManageLicense 39
ReplaceLicense 40
DeleteLicense 40
ManageReportTemplate 40
ManageAttributes 42
AddAttribute 42
DeleteAttribute 42
ManageSystemHealthThresholds 43
4 AuthenticatingandManagingUsers,Roles,andPermissions 45
Users 45
CreateUser 45
ModifyUser 47
DeleteUser 47
Permissions 47
PermissionTypes 48
GlobalPermissions 48
HierarchyPermissions 48
CostPermissions 48
ReportingPermissions 48
Role‐BasedAccessControlPermissions 48
PermissionstoAccessUserInterfaceTabs 49
ManagePermissions 49
AssigntheSuperUserRoletoaUser 49
AssignaRoletoaUseronaHierarchy 49
ModifyPermissionsatEntityLevel 50
RevokeRolesandPermissionsAssignedtoaUser 51
Roles 51
PredefinedRoles 51
CreateaRole 52
ModifyaRole 53
DeleteaRole 53
Authentication 53
5 ManagingChargebackHierarchies 55
CreateaChargebackHierarchy 55
CreateaCustomChargebackHierarchy 55
SynchronizeaChargebackHierarchywithavCenterServer 56
ImportaChargebackHierarchyfromaCSVFile 56
FormatoftheCSVFile 57
ManageaChargebackHierarchy 57
ViewaChargebackHierarchy 58
AddavCenterServerEntity 58
AddavCenterChargebackEntity 59
RenameaChargebackHierarchyoraChargeback
Entity 59
DeleteanEntityfromtheHierarchy 60
DeleteaChargebackHierarchy 60
AssignAttributes 60
MoveEntitiesWithinaHierarchy 61
ShareVirtualMachineCost 61
ViewPropertiesofavCenterServerEntity 62