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

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 643
• Storage (GB)** - The amount in gigabytes the application uses. This value includes mounted
and unmounted storage. Any volumes the application can access are included in the storage
calculations.
• Storage Cost** - (Storage-based only) How much it costs to run the storage that the application
uses.
• Ownership Cost - How much it costs the department to use the asset.
**Applies to only storage-based chargeback.
Chargeback Reports
This section describes the following:
• ”Viewing Chargeback Reports” on page 643
• ”E-mailing a Chargeback Report” on page 644
• ”Managing E-mail Schedules for Chargeback Reports” on page 645
Viewing Chargeback Reports
You can access Chargeback reports one of two ways:
• From Chargeback Manager
• From Reporting
Keep in mind the following:
• To populate Chargeback reports, enter information for Chargeback, as described in the topic,
”Setting Up Chargeback Manager” on page 616.
• If you want to view the latest information in a report, select Reports > Storage Essentials >
Report Configuration in HP Systems Insight Manager and then click the Refresh Now button
on the Report Cache tab. See ”Refreshing the Report Cache” on page 219 for more information.
To view Chargeback reports:
1. Do one of the following:
• To access the reports through Chargeback Manager, click the Reports tab in Chargeback
Manager and expand the Chargeback Reports node in the tree in the middle pane.
• To access the reports through Reporting, click the Reporter button in HP SE (Tools >
Storage Essentials > Home). Then, expand the Reporter > Chargeback nodes in the
tree in the middle pane.
2. Click one of the default reports:
• Array-Based Chargeback - Displays asset information from storage arrays: host name,
department, HBA port, HBA port WWN, storage volume, volume size, and cost.
• Asset Based - Displays the following asset-based chargeback for each department owning
elements: department, asset name, ownership ratio, and chargeback amount. Total
asset-based cost per month is also displayed.
• Storage Based - Displays storage-based chargeback for each department owning
applications: department, application, ownership ratio, total capacity, and capacity amount.
Total storage-based cost per month is also displayed.