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Chargeback reports, Viewing chargeback reports – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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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.