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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
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.
Report Duration
Select Schedule this report.
Select a pricing model
Select the pricing model to be used for generating the report.
If you are generating a report for multiple entities, you can choose to use
different pricing models for each entity by selecting the Use different pricing
models for entities option and then select the required pricing models for
each entity. Ensure that the selected pricing models have the same currency
type.
Computing 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 Schedule page and set the scheduling parameters.
Option Description
Report Creation Time
When the report has to be generated.
Recurrence Pattern
How often the report has to be generated.
Range of Recurrence
Till when the report has to be generated periodically.
IMPORTANT You must provide the schedule information. The application does not define any default
values for the schedule information.
6 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 only the entity and its
immediate child entities in the report. A complete summary provides the resource cost summary for the
selected entity and all its descendant entities up to the leaf node.
7 Select the computing resources whose usage and cost details have to included in the report.
8 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.
9 Click Next.
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