HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software - Manual (Page 611)

Storage Essentials 5.00.01 User Guide 581
• ” Viewing Chargeback Reports ” on page 581
• ” E-mailing a Chargeback Report ” on page 582
• ” Managing E-mail Schedules for Chargeback Reports ” on page 582
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 554.
• 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 185 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.
• Storage System Based by Tier - Displays storage-based chargeback by tier. Only storage
systems are assigned storage tiers.
The report is displayed as a Web page in the right pane. See the topic, ” Chargeback Reports ”
on page 580 for more information about each of the reports.
3. Select one of the following options for a different output:
• PDF
• Excel
• XML
4. To view the report in a new window, select the Open in new window option. Then, click the
Apply
button.