HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96056, November 2006)

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17 Chargeback Manager
IMPORTANT: 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).
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About Chargeback Manager” on page 615
• ”Setting Up Chargeback Manager” on page 616
• ”Accessing Chargeback Manager” on page 617
• ”Creating an Asset Record” on page 617
• ”Changing the Status of an Element” on page 618
• ”Saving Chargeback Manager Information” on page 619
• ”Viewing Assets” on page 619
• ”Defining Storage Tiers” on page 620
• ”Adding Asset Information” on page 622
• ”Managing Departments” on page 625
• ”Setting the Infrastructure Cost” on page 626
• ”Setting Up Asset and Storage Based Chargeback Manager” on page 627
• ”Viewing Chargeback” on page 640
• ”Chargeback Reports” on page 643
• ”Filtering Assets” on page 650
About Chargeback Manager
Chargeback Manager helps you manage departmental ownership, track cost and assemble
business reports making inquires, such as audits and inventory reviews, easier.
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,