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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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Index
A
archived reports
delete 84
email 84
manage 83
reschedule 83
view 83
attributes
add 42
assign 60
delete 42
manage 42
B
base rate 64
billing policy 64
C
chargeable computing resource 63
chargeback hierarchy
about 55
add vCenter Chargeback entity 59
add vCenter Server entity 58
assign attributes 60
create 55
CSV file format 57
custom 55
delete entity 60
delete hierarchy 60
import from CSV file 56
manage 57
move entities 61
rename entity 59
sharing cost 61
synchronize with vCenter Server 56
view 58
view entity properties 62
configure cost
about 72
edit 73
view 73
cost model
about 65
create 66
delete 68
manage 66
modify 67
cost template
about 66
create 70
delete 72
manage 70
modify 72
custom fixed cost 64
D
Data Collector
delete 39
disable 39
download 24, 26
enable 38
install 24, 26
manage 37
view 37
database management scripts
about 88
data purging 89
data restoring 89
generic 88
space calculation scripts 88
definition
base rate 64
chargeable computing resource 63
chargeback 9
chargeback hierarchy 55
cost model 65
cost template 66
custom fixed cost 64
fixed cost 64
rate factor 64
F
fixed cost 64
modify 69
I
installing vCenter Chargeback
basic installation 17
cluster installation 19
installation scenarios 17
pre-installation checklist 16