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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
2 Click the Click to download link.
The application exports the report to the specified format. If the report name contains any special
characters, then such characters are replaced with an underscore (_) in the exported report file name.
If you have chosen to view the report in the .rtf format, an Opening
filename
.rtf dialog is displayed.
NOTE If the temp folder in the Tomcat installation folder is deleted, the export to .rtf might fail.
If you have chosen to view the report in the .pdf format, an Opening
filename
.pdf dialog is displayed.
If you have chosen to view the report in the .csv format, an Opening
filename
.csv dialog is displayed.
3 You can either chose to open the file with a supported application or save the file on the system.
NOTE If the reports contains entities with double byte characters in their names and you export the report
to .csv format, then you must perform the following tasks:
n
To open the .csv file in a text editor, ensure that the text editor supports Unicode characters.
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To open the .csv file in Microsoft Excel, first import the file in to Microsoft Excel.
Instructions for importing such a .csv file in to Microsoft Excel 2007 can be found at
http://www.itg.ias.edu/content/how-import-csv-file-uses-utf-8-character-encoding-0.
Stop Report Generation
You can stop one or more reports that are being generated, including scheduled reports, in vCenter Chargeback
Manager.
In vCenter Chargeback Manager, any running report can be stopped and deleted. You might want to stop
report generation in many cases, such as report generation is taking too much time, a scheduled report is
currently not required, or generation of multiple large reports is using too many resources. In such cases, you
can cancel the report generation from the Reports tab of vCenter Chargeback Manager. You can also delete
the cancelled reporting tasks from vCenter Chargeback Manager.
You can only stop reports that you have started or scheduled. You cannot restart a stopped report generation.
If you want a report that was stopped, you must regenerate the report.
Procedure
1 Click Running Reports in the Reports tab.
The Running Reports page is displayed. This page lists the reports that are currently being generated and
the ones that have been cancelled.
2 Select the report that you want to stop.
3 Click Cancel & Delete.
4 Click OK.
The report generation is cancelled and the status for the report is shown as CANCELLED on the Running
Reports page.
5 To delete a cancelled reporting task, select the cancelled report and click Cancel & Delete.
6 Click OK.
The report generation is stopped and the corresponding reporting task is deleted from vCenter Chargeback
Manager.
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