Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
- Overview of NetBackup OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter components
- About starting the OpsCenter console
- About OpsCenter console components
- About the View pane
- Sizing the Content pane
- About using tables
- Installing OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- About the OpsCenter licensing model
- Managed NetBackup master server considerations
- About designing your OpsCenter Server
- About planning an OpsCenter Agent deployment
- Installing OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter upgrade on Windows and UNIX
- About post-installation tasks
- About uninstalling OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About clustering OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- Getting started with OpsCenter
- Administering OpsCenter
- About the services and processes used by OpsCenter
- OpsCenter server scripts on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter database administration
- About backup and restore of OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
- About communication ports and firewall considerations in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter log files
- Understanding OpsCenter settings
- Setting user preferences
- About managing licenses
- Configuring the data purge period on the OpsCenter Server
- Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter
- Adding host aliases in OpsCenter
- Merging objects (hosts) in OpsCenter
- Modifying tape library information in OpsCenter
- Copying a user profile in OpsCenter
- Setting report export location in OpsCenter
- About managing Object Types in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter users
- About adding AD / LDAP user groups in OpsCenter
- About managing recipients in OpsCenter
- About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics
- Understanding data collection
- About data collection in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter Agents
- About managing OpsCenter Data Collectors
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- About the Breakup Jobs option
- Viewing master server details and data collection status
- Collecting data from PureDisk
- Managing OpsCenter views
- About OpsCenter views
- About managing OpsCenter views
- View filters in OpsCenter
- Monitoring NetBackup using OpsCenter
- Controlling the scope of Monitor views
- About monitoring NetBackup using the Overview tab
- About monitoring NetBackup jobs
- Monitor > Services view
- About monitoring Audit Trails
- Managing NetBackup using OpsCenter
- About managing alert policies
- About creating (or changing) an alert policy
- About managing NetBackup storage
- About managing NetBackup devices
- About Operational Restore and Guided Recovery operations
- About Operational Restores from OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter Guided Recovery
- Troubleshooting Guided Recovery
- About managing NetBackup Hosts
- About managing NetBackup Deployment Analysis
- Data compilation for the Capacity License report
- Generating a Capacity Licensing report
- Supporting Replication Director in OpsCenter
- Understanding and configuring OpsCenter alerts
- About using SNMP
- About using SNMP
- Reporting in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter reports
- Report Templates in OpsCenter
- About managing reports in OpsCenter
- Creating a custom report in OpsCenter
- About managing My Reports
- About managing My Dashboard
- About managing reports folders in OpsCenter
- About managing report schedules in OpsCenter
- About managing time schedules in OpsCenter
- Appendix A. Additional information on PureDisk data collection
- Appendix B. Attributes of NetBackup data
- Appendix C. Man pages for CLIs
- Appendix D. Creating views using CSV, TSV, and XML files
- Appendix E. Error messages in OpsCenter
Creating cost variables in OpsCenter
Cost reports in OpsCenter Analytics are based on the user-defined variables that define the cost of various services.
Typically, each service is represented by one variable that reflects the cost of the service, for example $1.00 per backup job. However, you can account for rate changes in one of two ways: by creating two variables for the same service (which you can include in a single cost formula later) or by incorporating both rates into a single variable. For example, a single variable can incorporate the rate of $1.00 per backup job until 31 December 2004 and the rate of $1.25 per backup job starting on 1 January 2005.
Note:
To generate deduplication savings reports, you must create a cost variable with the Protected Job Size (GB) metric.
To set up OpsCenter to run cost reports, you need to create the variables that define the cost of various services.
To create a cost variable
- Log on to the OpsCenter console with administrator privileges.
- In the OpsCenter console, click Settings > Chargeback.
Click Cost Variable.
- On the Cost Variable tab, click Add.
- Enter the variable name.
- Select any of the following variable metrics from the drop-down list:
Daily Occupancy
Job Count
Job Size
Protected Job Size
Storage Size
- If necessary, select additional parameters to refine the metric you selected. For Job Count, Job Size, and Protected Job Size select the Job Type, Job Policy Type, Job Transport Type, and Job Storage Type.
Note:
These fields are not applicable for the Daily Occupancy and Storage Size variable metrics. For Storage Size, Cloud Provider field is available.
- Add one or more date ranges using the drop-down lists for Month, Day, Year, and Time. Add an associated rate by typing a cost per service unit (such as backup jobs or backed-up GB) in the Rate field.
Add at least one date range.
- Optionally, to add more date ranges, click Add New Range.
This can be useful for defining multiple date ranges to represent historical or future changes in service costs. You can also modify the variable later to add or delete date ranges as costs change.
- Click OK .
You can now use the variable you created to build the formulas that form the basis for cost reports.