The Billing Association report displays the association of CommCell
components and storage entities to the billable entities and cost categories
that are defined in the CommNet domain.
List of billable entities without any association.
The Secondary Storage - Billable Entity Based Association table
displays the billable entities along with their associated CommCell
components.
Cost Category Based Association
The following information is displayed:
List of cost categories without any association.
The Secondary Storage - Cost Category Based Billing Association
table displays the cost categories along with their associated primary
and/or secondary storage resources.
Cost categories that are automatically assigned to drive
pools are listed in the report as Implicit. If a user
has manually associated a storage entity (e.g, disk
libraries must be manually associated), the
cost category is listed as Explicit.
Cost categories associated with an SRM Exchange
subclient calculates the data size information from the
Exchange mailboxes and public folders, and does not include
the transaction logs.
Cell
Client Based Billing Association
The Primary Storage and Secondary Storage tables display all the
components (client, IDA and subclient) from the selected CommCell along with
their associated billable entities.
Storage Resource Based Billing Association
The Primary Storage and Secondary Storage tables display the
storage resources from the selected CommCell along with their
associated cost category.
After a report is generated, you can schedule a new report and save it
to an specific location as a PDF, excel spreadsheet or MHTML file.
Scheduling and saving reports will help you analyze and compare data
from your CommCells.
Follow the steps below to create a schedule:
Click Schedule from the top of the report window.
Type the name of the schedule and enter a description.
Click Next.
Select the appropriate schedule options. For example:
Select the time zone.
Select the start date and the frequency to generate the report.
Change the Start Time to 9:00 PM
Click Repeat Task and configure at which interval the
schedule should be repeated.
Click Next.
Select the file format.
Click Save To File to save the report to a local drive or
network share.
Specify the Destination Path for the output
file.
You can also click Send E-Mail to User(s) and/or User Groups(s) to
send the report as an email attachment to a user or user group.
Click Finish.
The report will be generated as
specified in the schedule task.
You can further customize the report by using
the filters available in the report. To access the filter options, click Filters
at the top of the report window as shown in the image. After making your
selections, click Generate to update the report.
To generate this report, click the Cell Based option. The following
table describes the available filter options:
Filter
Description
Client Based
Select this option to display in the report all the CommCell components
with their associated billable entities. Expand the CommCells and
Cell-Client Groups nodes to select one or more CommCells and/or Cell-Client Groups.
Storage Resource Based
Select this option to display in the report the primary/secondary
storage resources of a CommCell along with their associated cost
category. Expand the CommCells node to select one or more
CommCells.
Display
By default, the report displays entries with and without association. You can
choose to Display entries without association only or Display entries
with association only.