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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
10 On the Details page, select the fixed cost details, usage-related details, and other information to be
displayed in the report, and click Next.
Option Description
Show these details in report
Select this option if you want to include information about the selected
pricing model or the entity attributes, or information messages in the Cost
Details section of the report. The selected information is displayed in the
report for the selected entity and all the entities that are under it in the
chargeback hierarchy.
Show these columns in the usage
details table
Select this option to include the usage statistics in the report. You must also
select the types of information that should be displayed in the usage table in
the report.
Show fixed cost in report
Select this option to include the details of the fixed costs in the report. If you
select this option, you must also select the fixed cost details to be included
in the report.
11 (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.
12 Click Submit.
The report is generated periodically as per the schedule options set. The generated reports are automatically
archived and can be viewed from the Archived Reports page of the Reports tab. You can similarly schedule
usage reports and cost comparison reports.
What to do next
All active report schedule can be accessed from the Schedule Reports page of the Reports tab. A report schedule
would expire only if the range of recurrence is limited with an end date. Even if a report schedule has expired,
the reports generated and archived as per the schedule are available and can be viewed from the Archived
Reports page of the Reports tab.
Reschedule Report Generation
A report generation schedule can be modified to define a new schedule.
You must have update privilege on the report schedule 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 reschedule a report, refer to “Scheduling Parameters,” on page 113 to learn about the scheduling
parameters in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
Procedure
1 In the Reports tab, click Scheduled Reports.
A table listing all the report generation schedules is displayed.
2 Select the required report schedule from the table.
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