NetIQ Documentation: NetIQ Cloud Manager Procedures Guide - Displaying or Hiding Business Service Costs

14.7 Displaying or Hiding Business Service Costs

The Cloud Manager console displays business service costs in places such as the business service lists, the individual business service dialog boxes, and business service cost reports. System users always see the business service costs. However, you can choose whether or not to display costs to Organization members.

There are three levels at which you can configure the Costs setting:

Organization: This setting applies to all Organization members. For example, if the Costs setting is set to Hide, no Organization members can see business service costs.
Business Group: This setting overrides the organization setting for the business group. For example, if the organization Costs setting is set to Hide, but the business group Costs setting is set to Show, Organization members can see the costs for that business group’s business services.
User: Each user account has an Always show costs setting that overrides the organization and business group Costs setting.

14.7.1 Configuring an Organization’s Costs Setting

Roles that Can Perform This Task: Cloud Administrator, Organization Manager

On the main navigation bar, click Organizations.
On the Organizations tab, select the target organization, then click Edit.
In the upper-right corner of the dialog box, click the icon to display the Organization Configuration dialog box.
Under Organizations Costs, select Show or Hide.

The setting applies to all Organization members unless it is overridden for a business group or individual user.
Click OK to save your changes.

14.7.2 Configuring a Business Group’s Costs Setting

Roles that Can Perform This Task: Cloud Administrator, Organization Manager

On the main navigation bar, click Organizations.
Click the Business Groups tab, select the target business group, then click Edit.
In the Costs field, select Override to override the setting inherited from the organization, then select Show or Hide.

The setting applies to all business services created for the business group. If the costs are hidden, no Organization members can see the costs unless you enable the Always show costs setting for individual users.
Click Save to save your changes.

14.7.3 Configuring a User’s Costs Setting

Roles that Can Perform This Task: Cloud Administrator, Organization Manager

On the main navigation bar, click Organizations.
Click the Users tab, select the target user, then click Edit.
In the Cost Visibility field, select Always show costs to enable the user to see business service costs regardless of the organization and business group Costs settings.

The setting is disabled for System users. System users can always see business service costs.
Click Save to save your changes.