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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback
- Installing vCenter Chargeback
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Prerequisites for vCenter Chargeback
- Download and Extract the vCenter Chargeback Installer
- Install vCenter Chargeback
- Create a vCenter Chargeback Cluster
- Install vCenter Chargeback with an Existing Database Schema
- Upgrading vCenter Chargeback
- Services Related to the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Accessing the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Data Collector
- Uninstall vCenter Chargeback
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Chargeback 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 Cost Elements
- Generating Reports
- Monitoring System Health
- Administration Utilities
- Troubleshooting vCenter Chargeback
- Troubleshooting Utility
- Troubleshooting Issues in vCenter Chargeback
- Changed Timezone Setting Is Not Reflected
- Changes to Chargeback Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in the Concurrent User-Sessions
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Installer Throws the SQL Driver Not Found Error
- LDAP Server Configuration Fails
- Non-English Characters Are Not Correctly Stored in the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Report Does Not Display the Disk Read and Disk Write Information
- Report Does Not Display the Memory Usage Value and the Corresponding Cost
- Report Does Not Display the Network Transmitted and Network Received Information
- Service Temporarily Unavailable Error
- Status of Failed Data Collector Is Not Reflected Immediately on the System Health Tab
- Storage Synchronization Job Fails
- Text and Messages on the vCenter Chargeback User Interface Are Not Correctly Displayed
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Unable to Add an LDAP Server
- Unable to Add vCenter Server in vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Change the Password for the vCenter Chargeback Keystore
- Unable to Configure Another VMware Cloud Director Setup with vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Server Database
- Unable to Email Report
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Unable to Use Custom SSL Certificates
- Unable to View the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In in the VI Client
- Index
Procedure
1 Click the Email Report icon above the generated report.
The Email Report screen is displayed.
2 Provide the email details.
Option Description
To
The email address of the recipients. The email addresses should be separated
by commas.
Subject
A subject for the email.
Body
The body text for the email.
3 Click Send.
The report in the PDF format is attached to the email and sent to the marked recipients. If the report size is less
than attachment size limit set when configuring the SMTP server in the application, only then the report is
attached to the email. Else, a link to the report is included in the email.
NOTE Anybody can access the report link sent through email. vCenter Chargeback does not authenticate a
user when the report link is clicked.
Export Report
After a report is generated, you can export it to .rtf, .pdf, and .csv formats.
Procedure
1 Select the output type.
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To export the report to the .rtf format, click the Microsoft Word document icon.
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To export the report to the .pdf format, click the Adobe PDF icon.
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To export the report to the .csv format, click the Microsoft Excel icon.
The Convert Report Format screen is displayed.
2 Click the Click to download link.
The application exports the report to the specified format. If the report name contains any special
characters, then such characters are replaced with an underscore (_) in the exported report file name.
If you have chosen to view the report in the .rtf format, an Opening
filename
.rtf dialog is displayed.
NOTE If the temp folder in the Tomcat installation folder is deleted, the export to .rtf might fail.
If you have chosen to view the report in the .pdf format, an Opening
filename
.pdf dialog is displayed.
If you have chosen to view the report in the .csv format, an Opening
filename
.csv dialog is displayed.
3 You can either chose to open the file with a supported application or save the file on the system.
Managing Archived Reports
The Archived Reports page of the Reports tab displays a table listing all the reports archived in the application.
This includes manually generated and saved reports as well as reports generated by report schedules.
All the reports generated by a single schedule have the same name but different Created on and Billing
Period values. The reports are listed in the ascending order of their creation time. You can view an archived
report by clicking it.
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