18 Chargeback Manager

Depending on your license, Chargeback Manager may not be available. See the List of Features to determine if you have access to Chargeback Manager. The List of Features is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials). Chargeback Manager is not included with HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition.

Chargeback Manager helps you manage departmental ownership, track cost, and assemble business reports, thus making inquiries, such as audits and inventory reviews, easier.

This chapter contains the following topics:

•About Chargeback Manager, page 637

•Setting Up Chargeback Manager, page 638

•Accessing Chargeback Manager, page 639

•Creating an Asset Record, page 639

•Changing the Status of an Element, page 640

•Saving Chargeback Manager Information, page 641

•Viewing Assets, page 641

•Defining Storage Tiers, page 642

•Adding Asset Information, page 644

•Managing Departments, page 648

•Setting the Infrastructure Cost, page 649

•Setting Up Asset and Storage Based Chargeback Manager, page 649

•Viewing Chargeback, page 662

•Chargeback Reports, page 664

•Filtering Assets, page 671

About Chargeback Manager

The management server provides the following types of chargeback:

•Asset-based - Asset-based chargeback calculates chargeback based on the departmental ownership percentages and the depreciated value of the assets. Each piece of equipment is owned by a department or a set of departments. Each department has a percentage ownership of the equipment.

•Storage-based - Storage-based chargeback calculates charges based on the actual amount of storage used by an application, the type of storage it is using, and the ownership percentage assigned to each department. The chargeback number is further refined by an additional fixed infrastructure tax on a per-department basis.

After you add information about all of your assets, back up the database by using the Database Admin Utility. Backing up the database saves your chargeback information. If the database fails, your asset information is restored when you restore the database. See ”Performing an RMAN Hot Backup” on page 231 for more information.

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