<h2>CMP - Budget Consumption FAQs</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"><ol style="list-style-position: inside;"><li><strong>As ServiceNow CMP does not calculate the Quota while provisioning CFT/ARM/GDM based catalogs, do we also do not calculate Budget consumption?</strong><br /><br /> <ul style="list-style-position: inside;"><li>Ans: Budget is not calculated during provision for any catalogs, including Blueprint based catalog.<br /><br /></li></ul> </li><li><strong>The cloud user portal has the Dashboard with Budget calculation, How the budget is actually calculated?</strong><br /><br /> <ul style="list-style-position: inside;"><li>Ans: After a successful billing schedule the billing data will be populated in cost table (sn_cmp_cost).<br /><br />Using this billing data populate consumption details in user consumption (sn_cmp_user_budget_consumption) and group consumption (sn_cmp_group_budget_consumption) tables.<br />On the user portal, we are displaying the budget for the user, not the group.<br /><br /> <ul style="list-style-position: inside;"><li>For example<br /><br />Log in user - "xyz"<br />Group (sys_user_group) - user "xyz" belongs to Group - A and Group B<br /><br />Budget for user (per user) "xyz" is as below<br /><br />ghegde -> Group A - $50<br />ghegde > Group B - $60<br /><br />So you will see the total budget at $110 on the user portal as Consumption<br /><br />Now after billing data available we will find out the cost associated with different resources owned by "xyz" and display the same on the user portal.<br /><br /></li></ul> </li></ul> </li><li><strong>Budget Configuration for a specific group</strong><br /><br /> <ul style="list-style-position: inside;"><li>Ans: We can configure the budget for a specific group and user as<br /><br />Go to "Cloud Admin Portal -> Govern ->Budget ->Budget Configuration"<br />Here we can set Group Name, Budget Period, Group Max Limit and Per User Limit.<br /><br />Here Group is sys user group the user belongs (sys_user_group)<br /><br /></li></ul> </li><li><strong>Is Budget calculation happening based on 'user group' variable value?</strong><br /><br /> <ul style="list-style-position: inside;"><li>Ans: Budget calculation happens for the particular user belongs to group/s for the resources owned by him/her.<br /><br /></li></ul> </li><li><strong>If Budget is based on 'user group' value, how the consumption is getting calculated for that particular request?</strong><br /><br /> <ul style="list-style-position: inside;"><li>Ans: There is no budget calculation happens for request. Please see the details provided in step #2<br /><br /></li></ul> </li><li><strong>How the mapping of resource and user/group will happen?</strong><br /><br /> <ul style="list-style-position: inside;"><li>In "sn_cmp_cost" table we will get the detail of resource and cost. At the same time, each record will have Tag values. This tag value is a reference to "sn_cmp_tag_value_set" and we will get the respective user and group information there.</li></ul> </li></ol></div>