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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
Procedure
1 In the Manage Hierarchy tab, select the required chargeback hierarchy from the drop-down menu on the
left pane of the page.
The collapsed view of the chargeback hierarchy is displayed.
2 Expand the hierarchy by clicking the plus sign (+) to the left of the hierarchy name.
The first-level entities in the hierarchy are displayed. You can view all the entities in the hierarchy by
clicking the plus sign to the left of the entities that have sub-entities.
3 Right-click the entity and select Edit label from the pop-up menu.
4 Provide a new name for the entity and click outside the entity-name text box.
The character limit for the hierarchy and entity names is 255 characters. The hierarchy and entity names
are not case-sensitive.
Delete an Entity from the Hierarchy
You can delete the vCenter Server entities and vCenter Chargeback entities from a chargeback hierarchy. If
you have added a vCenter Server entity to the chargeback hierarchy, you cannot remove any of its child entities
without deleting the directly added vCenter Server entity from the chargeback hierarchy.
Even if an entity is deleted from the hierarchy, the generated reports include these deleted entities for the time
period they were available in the hierarchy. vCenter Chargeback maintains the history of the entities created
in the chargeback hierarchies. Therefore, the cost information of the deleted entities can be retrieved for the
period they existed in the chargeback hierarchy.
To delete an entity, you must have delete privilege on the chargeback hierarchical entity and update privilege
on the hierarchy.
CAUTION You cannot undo a delete entity operation.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Hierarchy tab, select the required chargeback hierarchy from the drop-down menu on the
left pane of the page.
The collapsed view of the chargeback hierarchy is displayed.
2 Expand the hierarchy by clicking the plus sign (+) to the left of the hierarchy name.
The first-level entities in the hierarchy are displayed. You can view all the entities in the hierarchy by
clicking the plus sign to the left of the entities that have sub-entities.
3 Right-click the entity that you want to remove and select Delete from the pop-up menu.
A dialog confirming the action is displayed.
4 Click OK.
The entity and its child entities, if any, are removed from the hierarchy.
Delete a Chargeback Hierarchy
You can remove invalid or unwanted chargeback hierarchies from the application.
You must have delete privilege on the hierarchy to delete it.
CAUTION You cannot undo a delete hierarchy operation. If a hierarchy is deleted, all the information associated
with the hierarchy is lost.
Chapter 4 Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
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