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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
The following sample is an example of the contents of such a file:
#version 1.5.0
1,CB-folder,-1,101
2,CB-folder-1,1,101,vCenter Chargeback Manager entity
3,cbm-vc,1,0,12.123.123.123,vm-203,1
4,CBM_1.5_B2,2,0,23.123.123.123,vm-218,2
The first line of the CSV file specifies the version of the chargeback hierarchy population CSV file. The latest
version is 1.5.0. If this line is not present, the format of the CSV file entries defaults to that for vCenter
Chargeback 1.0. Starting with the vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 release, blank lines in the CSV file are ignored and
lines starting with the hash sign (#) are considered as comments.
Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
After creating a chargeback hierarchy, you can perform various tasks on the hierarchy, such as view the
hierarchy, modify the hierarchy by adding and deleting entities, manage attributes for individual entities in
the hierarchy, and set the allocation units for individual computing resources.
View a Chargeback Hierarchy
You can view the hierarchies created in the application from the Manage Hierarchy tab.
You must have a role with the read privilege on the hierarchy to view the hierarchy and its entities.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage Hierarchy tab.
2 Select the chargeback hierarchy from the drop-down menu on the left pane of the page.
The collapsed view of the chargeback hierarchy is displayed. The right pane provides name, description,
and various other details about the selected hierarchy. You can modify the description by providing the
new description and clicking Update.
3 Expand the hierarchy by clicking the plus sign (+) to the left of the hierarchy name.
The first-level entities in the hierarchy are displayed. You can view all the entities in the hierarchy by
clicking the plus sign to the left of the entities that have sub-entities.
The left pane of the page displays the expanded chargeback hierarchy.
NOTE vCenter Chargeback Manager does not display the status of the virtual machines and ESXi hosts added
to the hierarchy.
What to do next
You can also search for entities in the hierarchy by using the Search field below the hierarchy on the left pane
of the page. When you search for an entity, vCenter Chargeback Manager highlights the first entity in the
hierarchy whose name contains the search string. You can click the next or previous icon next to the Search
field to find the other entities in the hierarchy whose names contain the search string.
vCenter Chargeback Manager does not load the entire hierarchy when the hierarchy is selected. Only when
the hierarchy or an entity is expanded, the entities in the next level are fetched and displayed in the application.
The search operation only searches for entities that have been fetched and displayed in the application.
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