Creating a Billing and Chargeback Policy
This procedure assumes that your Host Group hierarchy represents the logical relationships—business units, customers, etc.—on which you want to report. When you set the per-GB and per-tape usage costs, you do so at the host group level. Therefore, child host group policies take precedence over parent groups. If a parent host group (Group A) has a billing and usage policy set at $0.50/Gbyte and $35.00/Tape and a child host group (Group B) has a usage policy set at $0.55/Gbyte and $40.00/Tape, the host contained in Group B would be billed at $0.55/Gbyte and $40.00/Tape rather than the billing rate of the parent group.
When StorageConsole discovers that there is no policy set for any given group, it traverses the host group hierarchy looking for a policy in a parent group until it finds a billing and usage policy to use. If the application cannot find any policy as it searches up the host group hierarchy, a value of $0.00 will be assigned for both per-GB and per-tape usage.
To add a new billing policy for a Host Group
1. Click Admin > Chargeback > Billing and Usage. The Billing and Usage Policy Administration window is displayed.
2. Click Add.
3. Select a Host Group name to which the policy will apply. Note that a policy set at any particular host group will be assumed by all child host groups that do not have a policy.
4. Enter values for Cost Per GByte, Cost Per Tape, and Cost per Duplicated GB and then click OK.
Cost Per GByte | The amount each host within the host group should be billed per GB of disk space consumed. The acceptable range is from $0.0001 ‑ $999.9999. |
Cost Per Tape | The amount each host within the host group should be billed per tape drive consumed. The acceptable range is from $0.0001 ‑ $999.9999. |
Cost Per Dup’d GB | The amount each host within the host group should be billed per duplicated consumption. The acceptable range is from $0.0001 ‑ $999.9999. |