Cloud Lifecycle Management - Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c - page 168

Figure 5-16. EM12c Chargeback console
The information in these reports is often useful to people who are not Enterprise Manager users, such as
line-of-business managers or people in finance departments. Therefore, an out-of-the-box integration with BI
Publisher is provided so that these reports can be shared with a variety of users. BI Publisher can generate these
reports on a schedule and share them in a variety of formats such as PDF, HTML, and Microsoft Office. The resource
usage data can then be fed into a billing tool such as Oracle Billing and Revenue Management, should any
organization want to generate a bill for the tenants/consumers.
Now you understand what metering and chargeback is, how it can be used, and what features are available.
But how does an administrator set up this option and begin using these advanced features?
Installing the Chargeback Plug-In
To set up metering and chargeback, you must deploy a plug-in on the management server and then define six tasks.
The plug-in deployment and defined tasks are discussed in this section.
To access the plug-ins, choose Setup ➤ Extensibility ➤ Plug-ins from the right-hand side of the screen.
This brings you to the page shown in Figure 5-17 , where all available plug-ins are listed.
Figure 5-17. Oracle Chargeback and Capacity Planning plug-in availability