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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
Table 4-1. Parameters in the CSV File Entry (Continued)
Parameters Description
vcEntityMoId
The moid (managed object ID) of a virtual machine as defined in the vCenter Server. You can
obtain the entity MoID by using vSphere SDK or through the vCenter server MOB
(http://{vcserverIP}/mob)
vCenterViewId
The vCenter Server hierarchy view to be used for creating the chargeback hierarchy. If you
want to use the Host & Clusters view, then set vCenterViewId to 1. For the VMs & Templates
view, set vCenterViewId to 2.
The following sample is an example of the contents of such a file:
#version 1.5.0
1,CB-folder,-1,101
2,CB-folder-1,1,101,vCenter Chargeback Manager entity
3,cbm-vc,1,0,12.123.123.123,vm-203,1
4,CBM_1.5_B2,2,0,23.123.123.123,vm-218,2
The first line of the CSV file specifies the version of the chargeback hierarchy population CSV file. The latest
version is 1.5.0. If this line is not present, the format of the CSV file entries defaults to that for vCenter
Chargeback 1.0. Starting with the vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 release, blank lines in the CSV file are ignored and
lines starting with the hash sign (#) are considered as comments.
Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
After creating a chargeback hierarchy, you can perform various tasks on the hierarchy, such as view the
hierarchy, modify the hierarchy by adding and deleting entities, manage attributes for individual entities in
the hierarchy, and set the allocation units for individual computing resources.
View a Chargeback Hierarchy
You can view the hierarchies created in the application from the Manage Hierarchy tab.
You must have a role with the read privilege on the hierarchy to view the hierarchy and its entities.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage Hierarchy tab.
2 Select the chargeback hierarchy from the drop-down menu on the left pane of the page.
The collapsed view of the chargeback hierarchy is displayed. The right pane provides name, description,
and various other details about the selected hierarchy. You can modify the description by providing the
new description and clicking Update.
3 Expand the hierarchy by clicking the plus sign (+) to the left of the hierarchy name.
The first-level entities in the hierarchy are displayed. You can view all the entities in the hierarchy by
clicking the plus sign to the left of the entities that have sub-entities.
The left pane of the page displays the expanded chargeback hierarchy.
NOTE vCenter Chargeback Manager does not display the status of the virtual machines and ESXi hosts added
to the hierarchy. All the virtual machines in the hierarchy have the same icon and do not indicate whether they
are powered on, suspended, or powered off. Also, vCenter Chargeback Manager does not show the status of
the virtual machines in the vCenter Server hierarchy. The vCenter Server hierarchy displays all the virtual
machines, including the ones that are suspended or powered off. However, this does not affect the usage and
cost calculation. The usage statistics that are used by vCenter Chargeback Manager to calculate the costs are
tracked by vCenter Server and stored in the vCenter Server database.
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