Generating Usage Data for Billing

Introduction

This page provides the ability to generate usage reports for tenant billing purposes. Each report contains a breakdown, per tenant, of the user counts in each service a tenant is entitled to use, calculated at the time the report is generated.

You can generate a report immediately, set up a repeating schedule, or delete unneeded reports.

Viewing the Usage Summaries Page

To access the usage summaries page:

  1. Log into nSA as a MSP Admin, see Logging into the MSP Portal.

  2. From the main menu, select Tenants > Usage Summary.

    The Usage Summaries page appears:

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    FIGURE 20 The Usage Summaries page

From this page, you can:

  • View previously generated reports, and download each report as a CSV text file to your local workstation.

    To download a report, select the download icon adjacent to the report entry:

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    FIGURE 21 Downloading a usage report

  • Schedule a regular report generation, see Scheduling a Usage Report Generation.

  • Generate a usage summary report immediately by selecting Generate Now.

  • Delete one or more usage summary reports by selecting the checkbox adjacent to each applicable report entry, then selecting Delete.

Scheduling a Usage Report Generation

To set up a usage report schedule, or to cancel an existing schedule, select Schedule.

The Schedule dialog appears:

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FIGURE 22 Setting up a usage report schedule

In this dialog, you can:

  • Switch on or off scheduled reporting.

  • Set a schedule duration based on a frequency of Daily, Weekly (with a selected day of the week), or Monthly (with a selected date in each month).

To apply your changes, select SAVE.