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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
Scheduling Report Generation
When creating a report, you can choose to schedule the report to be generated periodically. vCenter Chargeback
Manager provides various scheduling parameters for scheduling a report.
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Scheduling Parameters on page 113
You can set various scheduling parameters while scheduling a report.
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Schedule Report Generation on page 114
When creating a report, you can choose to schedule the report generation from the Create Report screen.
You can schedule cost reports, cost comparison reports, and usage reports. Showback reports cannot be
scheduled.
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Reschedule Report Generation on page 116
A report generation schedule can be modified to define a new schedule.
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Remove a Schedule on page 117
An existing and valid report generation schedule can be deleted from the application. However, deleting
a schedule does not automatically delete the reports generated and archived as per the schedule.
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Email a Scheduled Report on page 117
A scheduled report can be automatically sent through an email to the required recipients when the report
gets generated.
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Advanced Search for Scheduled Reports on page 118
You can search for specific scheduled reports by using the advanced search feature of vCenter
Chargeback Manager.
Scheduling Parameters
You can set various scheduling parameters while scheduling a report.
Report Creation Time
This is the time of the day when the report has to be generated. The time
specified is the time on the server when the report is generated. vCenter
Chargeback Manager does not account for the time on the client machine.
Recurrence Pattern
This defines how often the report has to be generated. vCenter Chargeback
Manager provides various options to define the recurrence pattern.
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Daily: A report is generated daily. The report is generated for the previous
day. The resource utilization and cost details are computed as per the
billing policy set in the pricing model.
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Weekly: This option lets you select a seven-day reporting period as well
as the day on which the report has to be generated. The reporting period
considered is always the one that occurred before the reporting day. For
example, if the reporting period is set to Sunday–Saturday and the report
generation day as Thursday, the report generated every Thursday is for
the period Sunday through Saturday of the earlier week.
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Monthly: In this case, the reporting period is one month. You can select
the date of the month starting from which the billing has to be done. You
can also define a schedule policy that defines when the report has to be
generated. For example, suppose you want to generate a report on the 5th
of each month for the period from the 2nd of the previous month through
the 1st of the current month. In this case, you can specify the start billing
date for the month as 2 and the report generation day as 5, which is the
scheduling policy.
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