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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
8 Modify the attribute-based fixed cost rules in the Rules tab.
If you have defined attribute-based fixed cost rules in the pricing model, then at least one rule persists in
the pricing model and cannot be deleted. To override this condition, you could perform one of the
followings tasks:
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Modify the value for the attribute in the rule such that the criteria is never satisfied.
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Delete the fixed cost from vCenter Chargeback Manager.
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Delete the attribute from the vCenter Chargeback Manager.
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Create a new pricing model with the same information but without attribute-based fixed cost rules.
9 Click Save to save all your changes.
NOTE The name of the pricing model and the start dates are mandatory information and do not have any
default values.
Delete a Pricing Model
You can remove invalid or unwanted pricing models from the application. However, you cannot delete the
Default Chargeback Pricing Model and Default Allocation Based Chargeback Pricing Model.
You must have delete privilege on the pricing model to perform this task.
CAUTION If a pricing model is deleted, any entity-specific cost configuration done for this pricing model will
also be deleted and the information cannot be retrieved.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Pricing Models.
A table listing all the pricing models created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the pricing model that you want to delete, and click Delete.
A dialog box confirming the action is displayed.
3 Click OK.
The pricing model is deleted from the application and, consequently, from the table listing the pricing models.
Managing Fixed Costs
vCenter Chargeback Manager provides functionality to create and manage fixed costs. These fixed costs
provide a means to charge various resources identically.
The fixed costs defined in the application can be viewed and managed from the Fixed Cost page of the Manage
Cost tab.
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Create a Fixed Cost on page 86
You must create the fixed costs that you want to charge on the entities and hierarchies. These costs can
include periodically charged costs and one time costs.
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Modify a Fixed Cost on page 87
You can modify the fixed costs as and when required.
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Delete a Fixed Cost on page 88
You can delete invalid or unwanted fixed costs from the application.
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