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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
5 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:
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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.
Email Archived Report
After a report is generated and archived, you can send it through email to one or more recipients.
Prerequisites
Ensure that the SMTP server has been configured, before emailing the report.
Procedure
1 In the Reports tab, click Archived Reports.
A table listing all the archived reports is displayed.
2 Select the report that you want to email.
3 Click the Email this report icon.
The Email Report screen is displayed.
4 Provide the email details.
Option Description
To
The email address of the recipients. The email addresses should be separated
by commas.
Subject
A subject for the email.
Body
The body text for the email.
5 Click Send.
If the size of the report in the PDF format is less than the attachment size limit configured for the SMTP server
in vCenter Chargeback Manager, then the report in the PDF format is attached to the email and sent to the
marked recipients. Else, a link to the PDF report is included in the email. The PDF report in the attachment or
at the link provided is password-protected. The password to access the report is emailed separately.
NOTE Reports generated and archived prior to upgrading to vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.0 are not
password-protected.
Delete Archived Report
You can clear the archive by deleting unwanted reports.
Prerequisites
You must have delete privilege on the report to perform this task.
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