Keep in mind the following:

You must have already added your departments, as described in the topic, Adding Departments” on page 562.

Not all applications use storage on storage systems. Storage-based chargeback is applicable only for those applications that use storage on storage systems.

You must have access to the storage system the application uses. Verify your organization and roles allow you access. See About the Security for the Management Server” on page 125 for more information.

Chargeback Manager provides only network capacity. If you look at the capacity of an application in Capacity Manager, the capacity differs. Capacity Manager displays the total capacity of an application, including the network drives. See the topic, Capacity in Chargeback Manager and Capacity Manager Differ” on page 572 for more information.

To provide information for storage-based Chargeback Manager:

1.Access Chargeback Manager.

2.Do one of the following:

Click the icon corresponding to the element.

Click the link for a host running an application in the right pane.

3.Click the Storage-basednode under the Chargeback Manager node.

NOTE: You can also access the tree shown in this figure from Application Viewer and System Manager.

To access the tree from Application Viewer, click the name of an application in the Application Viewer tree. In the right pane, click the Asset Management tab.

To access the tree from System Manager, double-click an element in the topology. In the right pane, click the Asset Management tab.

Step 1 - Assign Departmental Ownership Percentage

1.Select the option, Step 1 - Assign Departmental Ownership Percentage., at the top of the page.

2.Click the Add Ownership button.

3.Select department from the Department combo-box.

NOTE: If you do not see a department listed, add it to the list as described in the topic,

Adding Departments” on page 562. Click the Manage Departments link. After you have added the department, close the window you used to add the department and then refresh the page.

4.Type the percentage of ownership in the Ownership % field.

5.Click OK.

The department with its percentage of ownership is added to the table.

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