To ensure that cost data for a particular resource doesn’t appear in a report, you exclude the resource by adding it to the Excluded Resources list.

Before you begin

A cloud account (parent account) that has at least one service account and related datacenters is required.

Role required: insights_admin [sn_clin_core.insights_admin] or insights_owner [sn_clin_core.insights_owner] for owned service accounts.

About this task

  • Excluding a resource from a report means that the resource doesn't get displayed in the report. This setting doesn’t affect analysis of data for the resource.
  • At any time, you can remove a resource from the Excluded Resources list.
  • An insights_owner can exclude resources and remove a resource from the Excluded Resources list only in owned service accounts.
  • Production resources are examples of resources that you might exclude. Because production resources must always be active, you might, for example, want to exclude production resources from Business Hours reports.
  • You can exclude a resource either from a single report type or from all reports. You can select a resource and select Exclude for excluding the resource from the current report. The resource you exclude gets added to the Excluded Resources list for the report.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Cloud Cost Management Workspace > Operations > Administration > Global exclusions.
  2. Select New.
  3. On the form, fill in the fields.
    Table 1. Excluded Resources
    Field Value
    Resource The resource to exclude. Only virtual machine resources appear in the list.
    Description The reason for excluding the resource.
  4. Select Save.

Result

The resource is excluded from all reports. After you submit the record, you can open it to update the reports from which to exclude the resource.