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Generate Showback Report

You can generate a showback report to analyse how the cost is distributed among the entities based on a

specified distribution policy.

A showback report is a configurable report that does not include any costs when it is generated. You can specify

the total cost, fixed cost, and resource weightage in the generated report to obtain the cost for each entity and

for each resource per entity. The cost per entity is calculated based on the distribution policy that you select

when generating the showback report. Table 6-2 lists the available distribution policies.

Table 6-2. Showback report distribution policies

Distribution Policy Description

Equally among Hosts Total cost is distributed equally among the hosts.

Equally among VMs Total cost is distributed equally among the virtual machines.

Equally among Children Total cost is distributed equally among all child entities.

As per Allocation Total cost is distributed based on the resource allocation

values.

As per Usage Total cost is distributed based on the actual resource usage

values.

After you specify the total cost, this cost is distributed across the entities based on the distribution policy. You

can obtain the cost for each resource per entity, by specifying weightage for each resource. The weightage is a

percentage value that is used to identify the resource cost for each entity.

NOTE If you have defined allocation on both the parent and child entity and you generate a showback report

using the As per allocation distribution policy, then the total cost is distributed only till the parent entity for

the time period for which allocation is set on both the parent and the child entity. The cost is not distributed

to the child entities of the parent entity for the overlapping time period.

You can also specify fixed cost per entity. The fixed cost is deleted from the entity cost and the cost for each

resource is recalculated using the differential cost.

You must have create privilege on the report resource type and at least the read privilege on the hierarchy,

chargeback hierarchical entity, and pricing 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 entity on which you want to generate the report and select Generate Showback