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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
2 To remove row from the displayed report, select the row and click the Delete Selection icon (a cross sign)
above the report.
The selected entity and its child entities are removed from the report. You can add the entities back to the
report by clicking the Undo Delete icon. However, the undo delete operation is available only for the last
delete operation performed.
3 To choose the columns to be displayed in the report, click the Display Columns icon, select the required
columns, and click Done.
4 To choose the graphs to be displayed in the report, click the Display Graph icon, select the required graphs,
and click Done.
5 To rearrange the columns in the displayed report, select the column head and drag the mouse cursor to
the left or right as required. Release the mouse button to move the column to the new location.
What to do next
To save the modified report, click the Save Report icon above the report. The modified report is archived and
can be accessed from the Archived Reports page of the Reports tab.
Configure vCenter Chargeback Manager to Correctly Display the Characters in
the Exported Report
If you are using vCenter Chargeback Manager on a localized operating system or if the generated report
contains extended ASCII or Unicode characters, these characters might not be displayed correctly when the
report is exported or emailed.
To ensure that the extended ASCII characters and Unicode characters in the exported or emailed report are
displayed correctly, you must use the appropriate font files and modify specific files in your vCenter
Chargeback Manager setup to point to the correct font files. Also, these characters will be displayed correctly
only if the desired font for the locale that you are using is a TrueType font.
Procedure
1 Traverse to the <Installation_Directory>\Apache-Tomcat\webapps\vCenter-CB\WEB-INF\classes folder.
2 Rename the jasperreports_extension.properties.tmpl file to jasperreports_extension.properties.
3 Copy the desired TrueType font file for your locale to the <Installation_Directory>\Apache-
Tomcat\webapps\vCenter-CB\WEB-INF\classes\fonts folder.
4 Traverse to the <Installation_Directory>\Apache-Tomcat\webapps\vCenter-CB\WEB-INF\classes\fonts
folder.
5 Open the fonts.xml file and replace YourFontFileName.TTF to the actual font file name.
6 Restart the vCenter Chargeback Manager service.
Configure Precision Value for Numbers Displayed in the Report
The precision value for the numbers displayed in the exported PDF report can be configured in the vCenter
Chargeback Manager database.
The precision value used for calculating costs and those used for displaying cost and other numeric data in
the report are different. The PDF report displays rounded off numbers for costs, base rates, and usage. You
can, however, configure the precision value for the numbers displayed in the PDF report by modifying certain
server properties in the CB_SERVER_PROPERTY table.
NOTE Configuring the reporting_pdf_report_cost_pattern property affects only the usage based costs and
total cost displayed in the report. The fixed costs precision digits are not affected by this change.
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