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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
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy are not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Index
vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
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ManageAttributes 37
AddAttribute 37
DeleteAttribute 37
ManageSystemHealthThresholds 38
4 AuthenticatingandManagingUsers,Roles,andPermissions 39
Users 39
CreateUser 39
ModifyUser 41
DeleteUser 41
Permissions 41
PermissionTypes 42
GlobalPermissions 42
HierarchyPermissions 42
CostPermissions 42
ReportingPermissions 42
Role‐BasedAccessControlPermissions 42
PermissionstoAccessUserInterfaceTabs 43
ManagePermissions 43
AssigntheSuperUserRoletoaUser 43
AssignaRoletoaUseronaHierarchy 43
ModifyPermissionsatEntityLevel 44
RevokeRolesandPermissionsAssignedto
aUser 45
Roles 45
PredefinedRoles 45
CreateaRole 46
ModifyaRole 47
DeleteaRole 47
Authentication 47
5 ManagingChargebackHierarchies 49
CreateaChargebackHierarchy 49
CreateaCustomChargebackHierarchy 49
SynchronizeaChargebackHierarchywithavCenterServer 50
ImportaChargebackHierarchyfromaCSVFile 50
FormatoftheCSVFile 51
ManageaChargebackHierarchy 51
ViewaChargebackHierarchy 52
AddavCenterServerEntity 52
AddavCenterChargebackEntity 53
RenameaChargebackHierarchyoraChargeback
Entity 53
DeleteanEntityfromtheHierarchy 53
DeleteaChargebackHierarchy 54
AssignAttributes 54
MoveEntitiesWithinaHierarchy 55
ShareVirtualMachineCost 55
ViewPropertiesofavCenterServerEntity 56