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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
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No graphs are available in the resource summary.
Showback Report
A showback report lets you analyse how the costs are distributed among the
entities based on a specified distribution policy. This report type is useful when
you know the total cost and want to analyze how this cost is distributed among
the entities by selecting different distribution policies. The report structure is
similar to the cost report with the following exceptions:
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Report summary section displays the distribution policy instead of the
chargeback cost model.
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No graphs are available in the resource summary.
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Report does not include the Cost details section.
Generate a Cost Report
You can generate cost reports for a hierarchy and for individual entities in a hierarchy.
You must have create privilege on the report resource type and at least the read privilege on the hierarchy,
chargeback hierarchical entities, and cost models to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Reports tab, click Create Reports.
2 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. You can expand the hierarchy by clicking
the plus sign (+) to the left of the hierarchy name. The first level entities of the hierarchy is displayed.
To further expand, click the plus sign to the left of the entities that have sub-entities.
3 Right-click the hierarchy or the entity on which you want to generate the report and select Generate Cost
Report from the pop-up menu.
To generate a report for multiple entities, press the Ctrl key, select each of the required entities, and right-
click and select Generate Cost Report from the pop-up menu. Do not release the Ctrl key till you right-
click.
The Create Report screen is displayed.
4 Provide the requested report details and click Next.
Option Description
Name
Enter a meaningful name for the report. The character limit for the report
name is 255 characters.
Description
Provide an optional description of the report. The character limit for the
report description is 512 characters.
User Name
(Optional) Enter the name of the user to whom the report is addressed to.
The report is not automatically emailed to this user.
Report Duration
Select the Generate this report now option (default) and specify the effective
time period for generating the report by providing the start date and end
date for the reporting duration. This reporting duration is the time period
for which the usage stats of computing resources will be retrieved and used
for calculating the costs. The entity-specific cost configuration details, such
as rate factors and fixed costs, that are applicable during this time period will
also be used. Ensure that the dates are entered in the mm/dd/yyyy format.
vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
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