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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
- Contents
- About the User's Guide
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Resource Based Authorization in vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Permissions Defined in vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Managing Roles
- Managing Users
- vCenter Chargeback Manager User Authentication
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Chargeback Manager Entity
- Add a vCenter Server 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
- Allocate Computing Resource Units for a Chargeback Entity
- Share Virtual Machine Cost
- Backdate a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View Properties of a vCenter Server Entity
- Managing and Configuring vCenter Chargeback Manager Cost Elements
- Generating Reports
- Monitoring System Health
- Administration Utilities
- Index
7 On the Details page, select the usage-related details and other information to be displayed in the report,
and click Next.
Option Description
Show these details in report
Select this option if you want to include information about the selected cost
model or the entity attributes, or some information messages in the Usage
Details section of the report. The selected information is displayed in the
report for the selected entity and all the entities that are under it in the
chargeback hierarchy.
Show these columns in the usage
details table
Select this option to include the usage statistics in the report. You must also
select the types of information that should be displayed in the usage table in
the report.
8 (Optional) On the Attributes page, select Filter the report based on attributes to define attribute filters.
You must specify an attribute name value pair. Specifying attribute filters lets you generate report for only
the entities on which the attribute name-value pair is set. Also, the report is generated on the entities only
for the time period with in the reporting duration for which the attribute name-value pair is applicable.
9 Click Submit.
The generated report is displayed.
Generate Cost Comparison Report
You can compare the costs calculated by two different cost models on the same entity or hierarchy by generating
a cost comparison report.
You must have create privilege on the report resource type and at least the read privilege on the hierarchy,
chargeback hierarchical entity, and cost models to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Reports tab, click Create Reports.
2 Select the required chargeback hierarchy from the drop-down menu on the left pane of the page.
The collapsed view of the chargeback hierarchy is displayed. You can expand the hierarchy by clicking
the plus sign (+) to the left of the hierarchy name. The first level entities of the hierarchy is displayed.
To further expand, click the plus sign to the left of the entities that have sub-entities.
3 Right-click the hierarchy or entity on which you want to generate the report and select Generate
Comparison Report from the pop-up menu.
The Create Report screen is displayed.
4 Provide the requested report details and click Next.
Option Description
Name
Enter a meaningful name for the report. The character limit for the report
name is 255 characters.
Description
Provide an optional description of the report. The character limit for the
report description is 512 characters.
User Name
(Optional) Enter the name of the user to whom the report is addressed to.
The report is not automatically emailed to this user.
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