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ThischapterexplainssomeofthetasksthatyoucanperformbyusingvCenterChargebackAPIsinan
environmentwherevCenterChargebackisintegratedwithathirdpartybillingsystem.YoucanusevCenter
Chargebacktoperformcostmeasurementandgenerateresourceutilizationreports,whichareprovidedtothe
billingsystem
tochargecustomers.
Thechapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
 “RequirementsforCodeExamples”onpage 23
 “A d d CostModels”onpage 26
 “A d d aBillingPolicy”onpage 27
 “RetrieveListofHierarchies”onpage 28
 “GetDetailsofaHierarchy”onpage 29
 “A d d ReportScheduleforHierarchy”onpage 30
 “GetReportSchedulebyHierarchyName”onpage 33
 “RescheduleaReport”onpage 35
 “DeleteReportSchedule”onpage 36
 “GetListofArchivedReportsforaHierarchy”onpage 37
 “GetaReportasXML”onpage 38
Requirements for Code Examples
ThischapterprovidescodeexamplestoexplainhowyoucancalltheAPIs.Torunthesecodeexamples,you
requirethefollowingJARandhelperclassfiles.
JAR Files
ThecodeexamplesneedthefollowingJARfiles.
 commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
 commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
 jdom.jar
YoumustplacetheseJARfilesintheclasspath.
Using vCenter Chargeback with a
Billing System
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