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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
vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
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Schedule Report
Youcanschedulereportgenerationimmediatelyafterareporthasbeengenerated.
To schedule a generated report
1Clicktheschedulericonabovethegeneratedreport.
TheScheduleReportscreenisdisplayed.
2Entertherelevantvaluesforthefollowingschedulingparameters:
ReportCreationTime:Whenthereporthastobegenerated.
RecurrencePattern:Howoftenthereporthastobegenerated.
RangeofRecurrence:Tillwhenthereporthastobegeneratedperiodically.
Toknowmoreabouttheseschedulingparameters,referto“SchedulingParameters”onpage 78.
3ClickSchedule.
Thereportisgeneratedperiodicallyasperthescheduleoptionsset.
Email Report
Afterareportisgenerated,youcansendittooneormorerecipientsthroughanemail.
To email a generated report
1Clickthemailiconabovethegeneratedreport.
TheEmailReportscreenisdisplayed.
2Enterthefollowingdetails:
To:Theemailaddressoftherecipients.Theemailaddressesshouldbeseparatedbycommas.
Subject:Asubjectfortheemail.
Body:Thebodytextfortheemail.
3ClickSend.
Thereportisattachedtotheemailandsenttothemarkedrecipients.
Export Report
Afterareportisgenerated,youcanexportitto.rtf,.pdf,and.csvformats.
To export a report
1ClicktheMicrosoftWorddocumentico ntoexportthereporttothe.rtfformat.Toexportthereporttothe
.pdfformat,clicktheAdobePDFicon.Toexporttherepo rt tothe.csv
format,clicktheMicrosoftExcelicon.
TheReportformatscreenisdisplayed.
2 SelecttheClicktodownloadlink.
Theapplicationgeneratesthereportinthespecifiedformat.Youcanchoosetoopenorsavethefile.
Ifyouhavechosentoviewthereportinthe.rtfformat,anOpening <filename>.rtfdialogis
displayed.
Youcaneitherchosetoopenthefilewithasupportedapplicationorsavethefileonthesystem.
N
OTEThereportisemailedonlyiftheSMTPserverhasbeenconfigured.Toknowmoreaboutconfiguring
theSMTPserver,see“ConfiguretheSMTPServerSettings”onpage 33.
NOTEIfthetempfolderintheTomcatinstallationfolderisdeleted,theexportto.rtfmightfail.