Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

To use excluded publishers with the public-cloud-billing-check-tool for Azure, use the "--excludedPublishers" option.

...

In Abiquo configure price factors

To add a markup for your reseller and customers of your reseller, use an Abiquo price factor.

Go to Pricing view → Price factors and add a price factor for the Azure provider.

You can also create markups by product type and product ID.

See Manage price factors

...

In Abiquo configure enterprise properties for the reseller

In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise and create the enterprise properties:

Property

Description

Previous value

Migration

azurecompute-arm_discount

Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
CSP APIs return prices with a discount applied, which we remove to display for customers.
This is done using the formula  total =  TotalFromCSP/(1 -  azurecompute-arm_discount )

(tick)

-


azurecompute-arm_price_factor

Default value for enterprises that do not have this value in their hierarchy.
Also used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
Also used for retrieving hardware profile prices from the provider.
The platform will apply changes to the price factor in the next billing period.

(tick)

-(minus) This property is deprecated in Abiquo 6.1. The upgrade process will migrate the enterprise property to an Abiquo price factor

azurecompute-arm_currency_code

Default is "USD". Three character currency code of the bill. WARNING! Different
(warning) Warning - This is different from currency_code used for conversion factor

Currency

(tick)

billing.azure.country_code

Two digit ISO code representing the country where you purchased the subscription.
The default of "US" is set in abiquo.properties in Remote Services as abiquo.billing.azure.country_code.
So you only need to set this enterprise property to change the default value.

RegionInfo

(tick)

...

.

...

...

Locale


...

Configure enterprise properties for reseller customers

For reseller customers, edit the enterprise and create the following properties:

Property

Description

Previous value

Migration

azurecompute-arm_discount

Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.(tick)

-

azurecompute-arm_price_factor

The value of the discount or markup applied by the partner to the end user.
The default value is 1.

(tick)

-(minus) This property is deprecated in Abiquo 6.1. The upgrade process will migrate the enterprise property to an Abiquo price factor

...

Configure enterprise properties for reseller customers with Azure plans

For reseller customers with Azure plans under “CSP” subscriptions, create the following properties:

Property

Description

Previous value

Migration

azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription

For Azure plans under CSP accounts only.
If this property is "true", for an Azure plan, only bill for usage -
do not include the customer's products and services in the billing data for this enterprise.

New

-

...

Configure price factors for reseller customers

For reseller customers, you can configure price factors for the Azure provider, for product types, and for product IDs.

Insert excerpt
doc:Manage price factors
doc:Manage price factors
nameCreate a price factor
nopaneltrue

For Azure price factor tables see Manage price factors

...

Configure credentials and privileges in Abiquo

  1. For any reseller customer that will not use the compute features of the provider, to display data on the Billing dashboard, enter compute Credentials on the Public tab in the format Subscription##TenantId. 
    See Add credentials of reseller customers for billing only.

  2. In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise and go to Credentials → Pricing and add the Pricing credentials,

  3. In Abiquo, users will require the privileges to Display hybrid dashboard tab and View bills. See Configure dashboard display