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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
4 Provide the email details.
Option Description
To
The email address of the recipients. The email addresses should be separated
by commas.
Subject
A subject for the email.
Body
The body text for the email.
5 Click Save.
The email details are saved. If the size of the report in the PDF format is less than the attachment size limit
configured for the SMTP server in vCenter Chargeback Manager, then the report in the PDF format is attached
to the email and sent to the marked recipients. Else, a link to the PDF report is included in the email. The PDF
report in the attachment or at the link provided is password-protected. The password to access the report is
emailed separately.
Advanced Search for Scheduled Reports
You can search for specific scheduled reports by using the advanced search feature of vCenter Chargeback
Manager.
You can only search for scheduled reports on which you have read permission.
Procedure
1 Click Advanced on the Schedule Reports page of the Reports tab.
The Advanced Search screen is displayed.
2 Provide the required search parameters.
Parameter Description
Name of Report
Name or part of the name of the report. You can either search for reports that
have the specified name or the ones that do not have the specified name.
Hierarchy name
Name of a chargeback hierarchy. You can search for all the reports that are
generated on a hierarchy or any of its entities by specifying the name of the
hierarchy. You can also search for reports that are not generated on a
specified hierarchy or any of its entities.
Created by user
You can search for reports scheduled by a specific user or the ones that are
not scheduled by the specified user.
Cost Model
You can search for reports that are generated by using the specified cost
model or the ones that are not generated by using the specified cost model.
Entity Name
You can search for reports that are generated on the specified entity or the
ones that are not generated on the specified entity.
Report scheduling policy
This is reporting duration. The permissible values are daily, weekly,
monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, yearly, and custom.
Auto-email enable
Whether or not automatic email of the scheduled report is configured.
3 Specify the filters to sort the search results.
You can specify two filter levels. The results can be sorted based on the report name, hierarchy name,
entity name, or cost model name.
4 Click Search.
The scheduled reports that match the criteria specified by using the search parameters are displayed in the
table on the Schedule Reports page of the Reports tab.
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