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Option Description
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.
Select a distribution policy
Select the distribution policy to be used for generating the report.
Computation Resources
Select the resources to be considered for calculating the costs and to be
reported. You can either select Disk Read and Disk Write to be reported
individually or to be reported in total as Disk Read and Write. Similarly, the
data traffic over the network can be either reported separately as Network
Received and Network Transmitted or in total as Network Received and
Transmitted.
5 On the Report Summary page, select Include resource summary in report.
Select this option to include the summary of costs for the selected resources in the report. You must also
select the type of resource summary to be reported. The resource summary can either be Complete
(default) or Basic. A basic summary includes the resource cost summary for the selected entity and its
immediate child in the report. A complete summary provides the resource cost summary for the selected
entity and all its child entities up to the leaf node.
6 Select the computing resources whose usage and cost details have to included in the report.
7 Select Include cost summary in report to include the summary of costs in the report.
The cost summary can be either Complete (default) or Basic.
8 Click Next.
9 On the Details page, click Next.
A showback report does not include any fixed cost and usage details.
10 (Optional) On the Attributes page, select Filter the report based on attributes to define attribute filters.
You must specify an attribute name value pair. Specifying attribute filters lets you generate report for only
the entities on which the attribute name-value pair is set. Also, the report is generated on the entities only
for the time period with in the reporting duration for which the attribute name-value pair is applicable.
11 Click Submit.
The generated report is displayed
What to do next
On the generated report, you can specify the total cost. The cost is distributed across the entities based on the
selected distribution policy. You can also specify weightage (a percentage value) for each selected resource to
identify the resource cost for each entity. You can also modify the distribution policy for the child entities. The
report provides a menu of applicable distribution policies for each child entity on which you can modify the
distribution policy.
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