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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
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Chapter 5 Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
Format of the CSV File
TheformatoftheentriesintheCSVfileshouldbeasfollows:
<UniqueId>, <ChildName>, <ParentId>, <ChildEntityType> [[, <description>] [, <vcId>,
{<vcEntityId> | <vcEntityMoId>} ] ]
Inthisformat:
UniqueId:Auniquenumbertoidentifytheentity.TheUniqueIdofthefirstentryinthefilemustbe1.
ChildName:Nameoftheentity.
ParentId:TheUniqueIdoftheparentofthisentity.Ifthisentityistherootentity,theParentIdmust
be 0.
ChildEntityType:Thetypeoftheentity.IftheentityisavCenterChargebackentity,the
ChildEntityTypemustbe101.IftheentityisavCenterServerentity,theChildEntityTypemustbe0.
description:(optional)Descriptionoftheentity.ForavCenterServerentity,thisisnotapplicable.
vcId:The IDofthevCenterServerinthevCenterChargebackapplication.IftheentityisavCenterServer
entity,thevcIdmustbespecified.
vcEntityId:TheIDofthevCenterServerentityinthevCenterChargebackapplication.Iftheentityisa
vCenterServerentity,thevcEntityIdmustbespecified.
vcEntityMoId:Themoid(managedobjectID)ofavirtualmachineasdefinedinthevCenterServer.
For a vCenterServerentity,eitherthevcEntityIdorthevcEntityMoIdmustbespecified.
Thefollowingsampleisanexampleofthecontentsofsuchafile:
1,CB-folder,0,101
2,CB-folder-1,1,101,vCenter Chargeback entity
3,vc-entity-1,1,0,1,10
4,vc-entity-2,2,0,1,vm-61
Manage a Chargeback Hierarchy
Aftercreatingachargebackhierarchy,youcanperformvarioustasksonthehierarchy,suchasviewthe
hierarchy,modifythehierarchybyaddinganddeletingentities,andmanageattributesforindividualentities
inthehierarchy.
Thissectioncoversthefollowingstasks:
“ViewaChargebackHierarchy”onpage 52
“A d d avCenterServerEntity”onpage 52
“A d d avCenterChargebackEntity”onpage 53
“RenameaChargebackHierarchyoraChargebackEntity”onpage 53
“DeleteanEntityfromtheHierarchy”onpage 53
“DeleteaChargebackHierarchy”onpage 54
“A s s i g n Attributes”onpage 54
“MoveEntitiesWithinaHierarchy”onpage 55
“ShareVirtualMachineCost”onpage 55
“ViewPropertiesofavCenterServerEntity”onpage 56
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MPORTANTEnsurethattherearenoblankrowsinthe.csvfile.vCenterChargebackthrowsanerrorifthere
areanyblankrowsinthefileandthehierarchycreationprocessfails.