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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
Option Description
Report Description
A description of the report provided when generating the report.
None
(default) No information is displayed in this sub-section in the report.
Repeat this step to set the information for each sub-section as required.
8 Click Footer.
The Footer section of the report template displays three sub-sections.
9 Select a sub-section from the Footer section of the report template.
10 Select an option from the Footer Settings section to display the required information in the selected sub-
section.
Option Description
Copyright
The copyright information that you want to include in the report.
Page Number
Selecting this option ensures that each page of the report is numbered.
Report Creation Time
Date and time of report generation based on the system date and time on the
machine where vCenter Chargeback Manager is installed.
None
(default) No information is displayed in this section in the report. This is the
default selection.
Repeat this step to set the information for each sub-section as required.
11 (Optional) Click Preview to preview a sample report on the right pane of the page.
12 Click Save.
The report view is saved and will be used when the next report is generated.
In each section, the configured sub-sections will use the space available in the adjacent empty sub-sections.
A configured sub-section will first try to expand and use the unused space in the sub-section to its right, then
to its left, then to its bottom, and lastly in the sub-section above it. The content of a sub-section is center-aligned.
Also, the images are stretched to fit into the available space.
Managing Attributes
An attribute provides additional information about an entity in an hierarchy. You can define an attribute in
the application and then assign it to an entity.
For example, you can create an attribute called Geo_location, and then assign it to various entities and set
values indicating their geographic locations. To learn more about assigning attributes to entities, see “Assign
Attributes,” on page 62. The attributes set on the hierarchy and entities can be used to filter the hierarchies
and entities on which a report needs to be generated or scheduled.
If you integrate a vCloud Director setup with vCenter Chargeback Manager by installing the Cloud Director
Data Collector, then a default attribute is created in vCenter Chargeback Manager. This attribute is called
EntityLevelOverageFlag. You can use this attribute to override the global data collector property, VMware Cloud
Director apply overage charge on Allocation Pool vDC, at the entity level. This attribute can be set to
true or false.
You can manage the attributes in the application from the Manage Attributes page of the Settings tab. The
page display a table listing the attributes created in vCenter Chargeback Manager and those imported from
the vCenter Servers that are added to vCenter Chargeback Manager. The Source column of the table lists the
vCenter Server name from which the attribute is imported. For attributes created in vCenter Chargeback
Manager, this column is empty.
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