Assigning uncategorized resources to a cost center

Unassigned resource costs are included in the total cost of all your cost centers. They represent user and pool costs that have not been assigned to a cost center. Learn how to move unassigned resource costs into an existing or a new Cloudera Observability cost center.

Steps on how to locate and move unassigned resource costs into an existing or a new Cloudera Observability cost center.

Assign resources to only one cost center to avoid cost duplication.
Ensure that you have the ObservabilityAccountAdmin access role permissions to define the Chargeback settings, list, create, update, or delete cost centers, and view all the chargeback-related dashboards.

Verify that you are logged in to the Cloudera Observability web UI.
1. Log in to Cloudera in a supported browser.
  The Cloudera Cloud web interface landing page opens.
2. From the Your Enterprise Data Cloud landing page, select the Observability tile.
  The Cloudera Observability landing page opens.
From the Cloudera Observability Main navigation panel, select Financial Governance > Cost Centers.
The Chargeback page opens.
Scroll down and select Uncategorized.
The Uncategorized page opens.
Select the environment that must be assigned to a cost center.
Depending on the chargeback usage criterion option you selected when you configured your Chargeback settings, from the Pools or Users page, select the check boxes of the uncategorized resources you require for your cost center.

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Users and Pools may contain multiple instances of the same name, for example an admin user. In this case, select the name that is associated with the environment you require for your cost center.
Click Assign a Cost Center.
The Assign Cost Center dialog box opens.
Do one of the following:
- To add the unassigned resource costs in a new cost center, do the following:
  1. Click Create a new Cost Center…
    The Create a Cost Center page opens displaying the Cost Center details settings.
  2. In the Name field, enter a unique name for the cost center.
  3. In the Description field, enter a description for the cost center.
  4. Click Create.
  The Cloudera Chargeback page opens displaying a Success message, which denotes that the cost center was successfully created. Your new cost center is listed under the Cost Centers column and the Uncategorized page no longer displays the unassigned resource costs.
- To add the unassigned resource costs in an existing cost center, do the following:
  1. From the Select Cost Center list, select the existing cost center that you require.
  2. Click Assign to Cost Center.
  The Cloudera Chargeback page opens displaying a Success message, which denotes that the unassigned costs were moved into the selected cost center, and the Uncategorized page no longer displays the unassigned resource costs.
Optional: Repeat steps 4 through 6 until all your uncategorized resources are placed in your Cloudera Observability cost centers.