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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
Managing Automatic Report Scheduler
An automatic report scheduler creates report schedules for hierarchies and entities that match the criteria
specified in the automatic report scheduler.
The automatic report scheduler scans all the vCenter Chargeback Manager hierarchies and creates report
schedules for the hierarchies and entities that match the specified criteria. The scheduler runs every 30 minutes.
The scheduler creates report schedule only for the hierarchies and entities that match the criteria and on which
the user, who created the automatic report scheduler, has at least read privileges.
Create Automatic Report Scheduler
You can create automatic report schedulers to ensure that report schedules are created automatically for
hierarchies and entities that match a specific criteria.
You must have a create privilege on Automatic Report Scheduler to perform this task.
Procedure
1 Click Automatic Report Scheduler on the Reports tab.
A list of automatic report schedulers created in the application is displayed.
2 Click Create.
The Create Automatic Report Scheduler window is displayed.
3 Provide the schedule and report details and click Next.
Option Description
Scheduler Name
A name for the automatic report scheduler. The name should not exceed 255
characters.
Schedule Name
A name for the report schedule created by the automatic report scheduler.
The name should not exceed 255 characters.
Report Type
The type of report. You can select Cost Report or Usage Report.
Hierarchy Filter
You can filter the hierarchies based on Hierarchy Name or Hierarchy
Attribute. If you define a filter based on hierarchy attribute, the scheduler
will filter hierarchies for which the attribute criteria matches at the root level.
The scheduler considers only the hierarchies on which you have at least read
privileges.
Select a Cost Model
Select the cost model to use for report generation.
Multiple Entity Selection
Select this option to generate report at the entity level. If you select this
option, then you must perform the following steps:
a Click Add Row.
b Specify the entity selection criteria.
The entity selection can be based on entity name or an attribute assigned
to the entity.
c Select the cost model for the entity.
You can add multiple criteria. The scheduler considers only the entities on
which you have at least read privileges.
Hierarchy Entity Level
Specifies the number of levels for which the criteria is applied to select
entities. To scan the entire hierarchy, set the value as zero.
Computation Resources
Select the computing resource to be accounted for during report generation.
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