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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
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vCenterChargebackprovidesusermanagementfeaturesthatenableyoutomanagethevarioususersand
rolescreatedintheapplication.Theapplicationdefinessomepermissionsandroles.Inaddition,itallowsyou
tocreaterolesandusersasperyourrequirements.Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“Users”onpage 45
“Permissions”onpage 47
“Roles”onpage 51
“Authentication”onpage 53
Users
Duringtheinstallation,auserwiththeSuperUserroleiscreated.Theusernameandpasswordforthisuser
areprovidedduringtheinstallation.ThisistheonlyuserthatexistsinafreshlyinstalledvCenterChargeback
instance.Youcancreatemoreusersintheapplication.Asauserhaving
theSuperUserrole,youcanperform
thefollowingtasks:
“CreateUser”onpage 45
“ModifyUser”onpage 47
“DeleteUser”onpage 47
Create User
Youcancreatethefollowingtypesofusersandgroupsintheapplication:
Local:ThisisavCenterChargebackuserwhosedetailsaredefinedinvCenterChargeback.
LDAPUser:ThisisaWindowsActiveDirectoryuser.TheLDAPservermustbeconfiguredinvCenter
Chargebacktoaddsuchauser.The detailsoftheuseraredefinedintheWindowsActiveDirectory.
LDAPGroup:ThisisaWindowsActiveDirectorygroup.TheLDAPservermustbeconfiguredin
vCenterChargebacktoaddsuchagroup.ThegroupdetailsaredefinedintheWindowsActiveDirectory.
To create a Local user
1IntheUsers&Rolestab,clickUsers.
Atablelistingalltheuserscreatedinthe
applicationisdisplayed.
2ClickCreate.
TheAddUserAccountscreenisdisplayed.
Authenticating and Managing Users,
Roles, and Permissions
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