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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
4 On the Schedule page, specify the report schedule details and click Next.
Option Description
Report Creation Time
When the report has to be generated.
Recurrence Pattern
How often the report has to be generated.
Range of Recurrence
Till when the report has to be generated periodically.
5 On the Resource Summary page, select Include resource summary in report.
Select this option to include the summary of costs for the selected resources in the report. You must also
select the type of resource summary to be reported. The resource summary can either be Complete
(default) or Basic. A basic summary includes the resource cost summary for the entity and its immediate
child in the report. A complete summary provides the resource cost summary for the selected entity and
all its child entities.
6 Select the computing resources whose usage and cost details have to included in the report.
7 Select Include cost summary in report to include the summary of costs in the report.
The cost summary cab be either Complete (default) or Basic.
8 Click Next.
9 On the Details page, select the fixed cost details, usage-related details, and other information to be
displayed in the report, and click Next.
Option Description
Show these details in report
Select this option if you want to include information about the selected cost
model or the entity attributes, or information messages in the Cost Details
section of the report. The selected information is displayed in the report for
the selected entity and all the entities that are under it in the chargeback
hierarchy.
Show these columns in the usage
details table
Select this option to include the usage statistics in the report. You must also
select the types of information that should be displayed in the usage table in
the report.
Show fixed cost in report
Select this option to include the details of the fixed costs in the report. If you
select this option, you must also select the fixed cost details to be included
in the report.
10 Click Submit.
The created automatic report scheduler is listed in the Automatic Report Scheduler page.
Modify Automatic Report Scheduler
You can modify the automatic report schedulers that you have created in the application.
You must have update privilege on the automatic report scheduler.
Procedure
1 Click Automatic Report Scheduler on the Reports tab.
A list of automatic report schedulers created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the scheduler that you want to modify and click Edit.
The Edit Automatic Report Scheduler window is displayed.
3 Modify the necessary details and click Next.
4 Modify the scheduling parameters and click Next.
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