HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

Enter a value of 1 to convert the template to the global cost unit without changing the values. For
example, if the global cost unit is euros and the information in the template contains the correct
amounts in euros but is expressed as dollars, enter 1 to convert the template from dollars to euros.
Chargeback metrics collected and reported
The following table describes the report metrics and their values.
Table 7 Chargeback reported metrics
ValueMetric
Measured in minutes. Represents the time the resource was allocated to
an infrastructure service. Collected for all resources inside an infrastructure,
Allocation time
including services, logical servers, disks, and IP addresses, and for the
infrastructure itself
Measured in cost units. Represents allocation time multiplied by allocation
cost in minutes. Calculated for all individual resources, including fixed
Allocation cost
costs, logical servers, disks, and IP addresses in the infrastructure and for
the entire infrastructure
Measured in minutes. Represents the time that the logical server is up and
running (power status UP)
Logical server uptime
Assigned to the service. Considered once for the entire service lifecycleFixed cost
Chargeback metrics collected after an upgrade from a version older than Matrix OE
7.1
When upgrading from a previous version of Matrix OE to 7.2, the chargeback component
automatically acknowledges the existence of deployed services and starts collecting chargeback
metrics from the upgrade time forward. For these services, the chargeback component can report
allocation time, uptime, disk size, number of IP addresses, and number of servers.
Templates and services from earlier versions (prior to 7.1) do not have a cost frequency assigned.
Therefore, costs for existing services are not tracked or reported, and negative values are returned
for cost metrics for those services. In order to have costs reported correctly for these services, a
cost frequency value must be specified for the existing services. This can be done by running the
modify service command from the Matrix OE CLI. For more information about this command,
enter ioexec modify service –help on the command line on a Matrix OE 7.2 CMS.
After an upgrade to 7.2, server costs are updated to reflect the server cost assignment. Existing
total cost is assigned to base cost, and CPU unit cost and memory unit cost are assigned to 0. This
is a model in which, independent of the number of the CPU and memory, the cost for that server
is fixed.
Using the CLI to retrieve chargeback data
NOTE: API extensions are also available. For more information, see the HP CloudSystem
Matrix/Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Integration Interfaces API and CLI Operations Reference
Guide available on the following website:
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs
Matrix infrastructure orchestration includes a command line tool to retrieve chargeback usage data.
This tool generates an XML file containing chargeback data that can be opened in a browser or
using Microsoft Excel.
The chargeback.bat tool is found in the default location at C:\Program Files\HP\Matrix
infrastructure orchestration\chargeback\bin.
Chargeback metrics collected and reported 141