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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
5 Click Save.
If you have selected Enable LDAPS during the modify LDAP Server setting operation or the SSL certificate
on the LDAP server has changed, then a dialog requesting you to accept the SSL certificate is displayed.
6 Accept the SSL certificate.
If you click Cancel, the LDAP Server setting configuration fails.
The table on the LDAP Servers page lists the modified information for the selected LDAP server.
Delete the LDAP Server Setting
Any LDAP server that is no longer in use and configured in the application can be deleted from the application.
To perform this task, you must have the Super User role or the Administrator role. If you have the
Administrator role, you can only delete those LDAP server settings that you have configured.
IMPORTANT If you remove an LDAP server, the corresponding LDAP users and groups will also be deleted
from the application.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, clickLDAP Servers.
2 Select the required LDAP server from the table displayed on the page.
3 Click Delete.
A dialog confirming the action is displayed.
4 Click OK.
Information about the LDAP server is deleted from the table displayed on the LDAP Servers page.
Managing vCenter Servers
To determine the utilization of computing resources by the virtual machines and calculate the total costs, you
must first add the vCenter Server instances in your virtual environment to vCenter Chargeback Manager.
You can add more than one vCenter Server to the application. The application also lets you modify the
information about the vCenter Server instances and delete a vCenter Server from the application when it is no
longer required.
Communication with the vCenter Server is secured using a SSL certificate. After you add or modify the vCenter
Server settings in vCenter Chargeback Manager, you can view and install the SSL certificate presented by the
vCenter Server. If you chose not to install the SSL certificate, the vCenter Server is not added to and cannot be
accessed from vCenter Chargeback Manager.
If you change the SSL certificate on the vCenter Server or upgrade the vCenter Server, then you must modify
the vCenter Server information in vCenter Chargeback Manager to import the new SSL certificate.
Add vCenter Server Information
vCenter Chargeback Manager can calculate overall resource utilization and corresponding cost only for
vCenter Servers that are added to the application. You can add one or more vCenter Server instances to vCenter
Chargeback Manager.
You must have the Super User role or the Administrator role to perform this task.
Chapter 2 Configuring Administration Settings
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