HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software Creating an Asset Record, Accessing Chargeback Manager

Table 154 Setting Up Chargeback Manager

Step	Description	Where to Find More Info
1	Create an asset record if it does not	”Creating an Asset Record” on
	exist. You can use Chargeback	page 639
	Manager for applications and
	hardware that the management server
	does not detect. Just create an asset
	record for each element.
2	Set the status of the asset.	”Changing the Status of an Element”
		on page 640
3	Optional: Add asset information for	”Adding Asset Information” on
	asset management.	page 644
4	Add departments.	”Adding Departments” on page 648
5	Set up Chargeback Manager.	• ”Setting Up Asset-Based
		Chargeback Manager” on
		page 650
		• ”Setting Up Storage-Based
		Chargeback Manager” on
		page 653

Accessing Chargeback Manager

To access Chargeback Manager, do one of the following:

•Select Tools > Storage Essentials > Chargeback Manager.

•Select Tools > Storage Essentials > Home, and then click Chargeback Manager in the left pane.

Creating an Asset Record

IMPORTANT: Only a user belonging to a role that has System Configuration selected on the Edit Role page (such as the Domain Administrator role) is allowed to create a record.

You can use Chargeback Manager for any application or hardware, even those the management server does not detect. Create an asset record for the application or hardware the management server does not monitor, and then follow the steps for setting up Chargeback Manager, as described in the topic,”Setting Up Chargeback Manager” on page 638.

After you create a record, the element for which you created the record is treated as a discovered element. A discovered element is an element that has been detected by the management server, but

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