HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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18 Chargeback Manager
Depending on your license, Chargeback Manager may not be available. See the List of Features to
determine if you have access to Chargeback Manager. The List of Features is accessible from the
Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials). Chargeback Manager
is not included with HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition.
Chargeback Manager helps you manage departmental ownership, track cost, and assemble
business reports, thus making inquiries, such as audits and inventory reviews, easier.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• About Chargeback Manager, page 637
• Setting Up Chargeback Manager, page 638
• Accessing Chargeback Manager, page 639
• Creating an Asset Record, page 639
• Changing the Status of an Element, page 640
• Saving Chargeback Manager Information, page 641
• Viewing Assets, page 641
• Defining Storage Tiers, page 642
• Adding Asset Information, page 644
• Managing Departments, page 648
• Setting the Infrastructure Cost, page 649
• Setting Up Asset and Storage Based Chargeback Manager, page 649
• Viewing Chargeback, page 662
• Chargeback Reports, page 664
• Filtering Assets, page 671
About Chargeback Manager
The management server provides the following types of chargeback:
• Asset-based - Asset-based chargeback calculates chargeback based on the departmental
ownership percentages and the depreciated value of the assets. Each piece of equipment is
owned by a department or a set of departments. Each department has a percentage ownership
of the equipment.
• Storage-based - Storage-based chargeback calculates charges based on the actual amount of
storage used by an application, the type of storage it is using, and the ownership percentage
assigned to each department. The chargeback number is further refined by an additional fixed
infrastructure tax on a per-department basis.
After you add information about all of your assets, back up the database by using the Database
Admin Utility. Backing up the database saves your chargeback information. If the database fails,
your asset information is restored when you restore the database. See ”Performing an RMAN Hot
Backup” on page 231 for more information.