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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
Table 3-8. Permissions Defined on the Dependent Resource Update Role (Continued)
Resource Type Create Read Update Delete
Entity Cost
Modify
Report No Yes Yes No No
Schedule No Yes Yes No No
Role No No No No No
Billing Policy No Yes Yes No No
Automatic Report
Scheduler
No No No No No
Dependent Resource Read Role
Table 3-9 lists the permissions defined in the Dependent Resource Read role for each of the resource type.
vCenter Chargeback Manager assigns this role to the user on the dependent resources. For more information,
“Assign a Role to a User for a Resource,” on page 50.
Table 3-9. Permissions Defined on the Dependent Resource Read Role
Resource Type Create Read Update Delete
Entity Cost
Modify
VMware vCenter
Server
No No No No No
Data Collector No No No No No
LDAP Server No No No No No
SMTP Server No No No No No
Chargeback
Hierarchy
No No No No No
Chargeback
Hierarchical Entity
No No No No No
Attribute No No No No No
Tier No No No No No
Cost Model No No No No No
Cost Template No No No No No
Fixed Cost No Yes No No No
Report No Yes No No No
Schedule No Yes No No No
Role No No No No No
Billing Policy No Yes No No No
Automatic Report
Scheduler
No No No No No
Create a Role
Apart from the system-defined roles, you can define your own custom roles in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
These roles can then be assigned to the users created in the application.
Only users having the Super User role or the Administrator role assigned to them can perform this task.
vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
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