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Quarterly: This option lets you specify a date of the first month of a quarter
on which the report for the previous quarter has to be generated. The
quarters defined are January–March, April–June, July–September, and
October–December. For example, if the date is set to 5, then the report for
the period April through June is generated on the 5th of July and the report
for the period July through September will be generated on 5th of October.
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Half Yearly: This is similar to the Quarterly option. In this case, the report
is generated for a six-month duration. The report for the duration January
to June is generated on the set date in July. The report for the duration July
to December is generated on the set date in January.
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Yearly: This option is similar to the Monthly option. You can select the
month and day 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 yearly report for
the earlier year on the second Sunday of January. In this case, you can
specify the billing day as 1, the month as January, and the report generation
day as the second Sunday of January, which is the scheduling policy.
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Custom: You can set a custom billing period by specifying the start date
of the billing period as the number of days prior to the report generation
day and the duration for which the entities have to be billed. You must
also specify how often the report has to be generated. This value is set as
number of days. For example, suppose you want to schedule a bi-weekly
report. Set the start date for billing as 14 days prior to the report generation
day, duration as 14 days, and the report scheduling policy as 14 days.
Range of Recurrence
The recurrence range specifies the start and end date of the period for which
the report schedule is available. The report schedule will be removed after the
specified end date. You can also create a never-ending schedule.
Schedule Report Generation
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.
Other than the create privilege for report and schedule resource types, you must have read privilege on the
hierarchy, chargeback hierarchical entities, and pricing models to perform this task.
NOTE Ensure that no more than 20 report schedules, including the ones generated by the automatic report
scheduler, are configured to trigger at the same time. If more than 20 report schedules are triggered at the same
time, although the next trigger time is configured for all the report schedules, not all corresponding reports
are generated. vCenter Chargeback Manager might fail to generate report for some of the report schedules.
Prerequisites
Before you schedule a report, refer to “Scheduling Parameters,” on page 113 to know about the scheduling
parameters in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
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.
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