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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 the entity on which you want to generate the report and select Generate Cost
Report from the pop-up menu.
To generate a report for multiple entities, press the Ctrl key, select each of the required entities, and right-
click and select Generate Cost Report from the pop-up menu. Do not release the Ctrl key till you right-
click.
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.
Report Duration
Select Schedule this report.
Select a cost model
Select the cost model to be used for generating the report.
If you are generating a report for multiple entities, you can choose to use
different cost models for each entity by selecting the Use different cost
models for entities option and then select the required cost models for each
entity. Ensure that the selected cost models have the same currency type.
Computation Resources
Select the resources to be considered for calculating the costs and to be
reported. You can either select Disk Read and Disk Write to be reported
individually or to be reported in total as Disk Read and Write. Similarly, the
data traffic over the network can be either reported separately as Network
Received and Network Transmitted or in total as Network Received and
Transmitted.
5 On the Schedule page and set the scheduling parameters.
Option Description
Report Creation Time
When the report has to be generated.
Recurrence Pattern
How often the report has to be generated.
Range of Recurrence
Till when the report has to be generated periodically.
IMPORTANT You must provide the schedule information. The application does not define any default
values for the schedule information.
6 On the Resource Summary page, select Include resource summary in report.
Select this option to include the summary of costs for the selected resources in the report. You must also
select the type of resource summary to be reported. The resource summary can either be Complete
(default) or Basic. A basic summary includes the resource cost summary for the entity and its immediate
child in the report. A complete summary provides the resource cost summary for the selected entity and
all its child entities.
7 Select the computing resources whose usage and cost details have to included in the report.
8 Select Include cost summary in report to include the summary of costs in the report.
The cost summary cab be either Complete (default) or Basic.
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