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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
The role is revoked from the user. Revoking the role assigned to the user on vCenter Chargeback Manager
does not automatically remove the roles explicitly assigned to the user for the various resources. The user can
continue to access the resources that he has created and the resources for which he has been assigned a role.
vCenter Chargeback Manager User Authentication
After a user is created, you can log in to the application using the credentials of this user.
You can log in as either a Local user or an LDAP user. If you are logging in as an LDAP user, you must provide
the login credentials defined in the Windows Active Directory. The LDAP user login name can be the
samAccountName or the FQDN. If the LDAP user contains special characters in the user name, then to log in
to vCenter Chargeback Manager as such a user, replace each special character with an underscore (_) in the
user name.
Although you can create a user of the type LDAP group, you cannot log in to the application as an LDAP
group. If an LDAP group is added to the application, you can log in as an LDAP user belonging to that group.
This user will have the same roles and privileges as set on the LDAP group. If this LDAP user is not already
added to the application, the same would be done when the user logs in.
NOTE The LDAP user name and password must contain only ASCII characters. If you log in to vCenter
Chargeback Manager as a user that contains extended ASCII or non-ASCII characters in the user name or
password, then the login operation might fail.
Procedure
1 Open a Web browser and enter the application URL.
The application URL should be of the following type:
https://
IP address
:
port number
/cbmui/
2 Enter the user authentication details on the login screen.
Option Description
User name
The user name of a user.
Password
Password for the user.
Login in to
The user type.
LDAP Code
If you select LDAP for Login in to, you must specify the LDAP Code for the
LDAP server.
3 Click OK.
For a Local user, after three successive failed login attempts, the account gets locked and the application
displays a Captcha image during login. You must authenticate with the correct user account details and
enter the text in the Captcha image to unlock the account and log in to the application. If you do not unlock
a locked user account, vCenter Chargeback Manager automatically unlocks it after 30 minutes.
On successful log in, the Getting Started tab of the application is displayed.
What to do next
You can also access the application from the vSphere Client as a vCenter Server user, provided the application
is registered with vCenter Server. To know about registering an application with vCenter Server, see “Add
vCenter Server Information,” on page 17.
The vCenter Guest User role is the default role assigned to the vCenter Server user. If the user is same as the
user whose details are used to register the vCenter Server with the application, then this user is assigned the
Hierarchy Manager role on vCenter Chargeback Manager and the vCenter Server resource.
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