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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 Click the scheduler icon above the table.
The Schedule Report screen is displayed.
4 Enter relevant values for 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.
5 Click Schedule.
The revised report generation schedule is listed in the table.
Remove a Schedule
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.
You must have delete privilege on the schedule to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Reports tab, click Scheduled Reports.
A table listing all the active report generation schedules is displayed.
2 Select the required report schedule from the table.
3 Click the delete icon (a red cross) above the table.
The Delete Schedule dialog window is displayed.
4 Specify whether the reports generated and archived by this schedule should be deleted from the
application.
5 Click OK.
The report generation schedule is removed permanently from the application.
Email a Scheduled Report
A scheduled report can be automatically sent through an email to the required recipients when the report gets
generated.
You must have at least update privilege on the report schedule to perform this task.
Prerequisites
Before you perform this task, ensure that the SMTP server is configured on the application.
Procedure
1 In the Reports tab, click Scheduled Reports.
A table listing all the reporting schedules created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the required schedule.
3 Click the mail icon above the table.
The screen with the emailing details is displayed.
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