Billing Association Report

About Example

Table of Contents

About this Report

When to use this Report

What this Report Contains

How to Generate the Report

Scheduling and Saving a Report

Customizations That You Can Perform With This Report

Costing Based Report Filters

Cell Based Report Filters

About this Report

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.

When to use this Report

Use this report if you need to:

What this Report Contains

This report generates two types of reports:

Report Based on Sections Description
Cost Billable Entity Based Association The following information is displayed:
  • 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.

How to Generate the Report

1.
  • From the CommNet Browser, click Reports.
  • Under Billing Reports, click Association Report.
2.
  • Click the Billable Entity Based option and select the billable entities you want to include in this report.
  • Click the Cost Category Based option and select the cost categories you want to include in this report.
  • Click Generate.

Scheduling and Saving a Report

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.

Customizations That You Can Perform With This Report

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.

Costing Based Report Filters

By default, this report is selected for generation. The following table describes the available filter options:

Filter Description
Billable Entity Based You can refine your selection by adding or removing billable entities from the Selected pane.
Cost Category Based You can refine your selection by adding or removing cost categories from the Selected pane.

Cell Based Report Filters

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.