17 Chargeback Manager

IMPORTANT: 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).

This chapter describes the following:

•”About Chargeback Manager” on page 553

•”Setting Up Chargeback Manager” on page 554

•”Accessing Chargeback Manager” on page 555

•”Creating an Asset Record” on page 555

•”Changing the Status of an Element” on page 556

•”Saving Chargeback Manager Information” on page 557

•”Viewing Assets” on page 557

•”Setting Storage Tier Name and Cost” on page 558

•”Adding Asset Information” on page 559

•”Managing Departments” on page 562

•”Setting the Infrastructure Cost” on page 563

•”Setting Up Asset and Storage Based Chargeback Manager” on page 564

•”Viewing Chargeback” on page 578

•”Chargeback Reports” on page 580

•”Filtering Assets” on page 588

About Chargeback Manager

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

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,

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