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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
Option Description
Database Username
A database user name to access the vCenter Server database. Ensure that this
is not the same user that vCenter Server uses to connect to the vCenter Server
database.
If you have selected Windows Authentication, then provide a domain user
name to access the vCenter Server Database. The domain user name must be
of the form user@domain.com or domain\user. If you do not specify a
domain user name, then vCenter Chargeback Manager uses the details of the
domain user who started the current session of the vCenter Chargeback
Manager service to access the vCenter Server Database.
Database Password
Password for the database user name or domain user name entered.
Register As vSphere Client Plug-in
Select this option if you would like to register vCenter Chargeback Manager
as a plug-in to vSphere Client. If this option is selected, each time you log in
to this vCenter Server using the vSphere Client, the vCenter Chargeback
Manager plug-in is displayed on the vSphere Client. You can access the
vCenter Chargeback Manager from the vSphere Client as a vCenter Server
user. Ensure that you do not register more than one vCenter Chargeback
Manager instance as a plug-in for a single vCenter Server.
Enable Stats Replication
Select this option if you want the resource usage statistics from the vCenter
Server Database to be replicated in the vCenter Chargeback Manager
Database. Statistics starting from three months prior to adding the vCenter
Server are collected. vCenter Chargeback Manager considers the existing
vCenter Server inventory to have existed for the three month period prior to
adding the vCenter Server.
4 Click Save.
If the SSL certificate on the vCenter Server has changed, a dialog requesting you to accept the new SSL
certificate is displayed.
5 Accept the SSL certificate request.
If you click Cancel, the modify vCenter Server operation is cancelled.
The modified information is reflected in the table displayed on the page.
Delete vCenter Server Information
If you no longer want to calculate costs and generate reports for the virtual machines managed by a vCenter
Server, you can remove the vCenter Server from the vCenter Chargeback Manager.
To perform this task, you must have the Super User role or the Administrator role. If you have the
Administrator role, you can delete only those vCenter Server settings that you have configured.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, clickvCenter Servers.
A table listing all the vCenter Servers is displayed.
2 Select the vCenter Server that you want to remove and click Delete.
If any of the entities of the vCenter Server are part of a chargeback hierarchy, the Manage linked entities
screen is displayed.
3 (Optional) Click Delete all these entries to remove the entities from the hierarchy permanently.
You can retain the entities by clicking Keep all these entries. If you choose to retain the entities, they will
be temporarily removed from the hierarchy and will appear automatically when you re-add the vCenter
Server at a later stage.
4 If none of the vCenter Server entities are part of any of the chargeback hierarchies, the a dialog box
confirming the delete operation request is displayed. Click OK.
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