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Azure billing data |
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For standard accounts see Display Azure billing data for standard accounts.
The platform populates the billing dashboard with data from the cloud provider, so you will need to allow programmatic access to billing in the cloud provider.
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Azure billing user dashboard troubleshooting tips
Abiquo can display Azure billing data for your reseller hierarchy customers on the Hybrid dashboards and on the Latest bills and Estimated bill widgets for the Azure provider.
The platform may take up to 2 days to display data in the Estimated bill section
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You should add credentials from each CSP account to the corresponding Abiquo enterprise within a reseller and tenant hierarchy. For more details, see Add public cloud or Abiquo cloud reseller guide
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To display billing data for reseller tenants and their customers, do the following steps.
Configure Azure account
CSP resellers must give consent for the use of the CSP account in the platform. Contact Customer Service for more information.
The consent process will generate the accessToken and the refreshToken, which are part of the pricing credentials.
Configure Abiquo configuration properties
On the Abiquo Server, edit the abiquo.properties file and configure the following properties as required..
Users in your reseller customer enterprises can display billing data:
If their enterprise has credentials (compute or billing only)
If their user role has the privilege to
View billsIf the dashboards visible to the user include the Hybrid dashboard or the Latest bills and Estimated bill widgets for the Azure provider. The Hybrid dashboard is included in the platform’s
Defaultdashboard set.
You can add credentials for ONE Azure subscription to ONE Abiquo enteprise only.
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If one of your customers has an account with multiple subscriptions, you can create a key node enterprise with sub-tenant enterprises. You can then add the Azure subscriptions to the sub tenant.
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Abiquo properties for Azure billing data display
In Abiquo, on the Abiquo Server, you can configure the following properties for Azure billing.
abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset | By default, the platform will retrieve billing data for the last two months. To change this |
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abiquo.azure.billing. |
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ignore | By default, Abiquo will bill SaaS resources, such as a Twilio subscription, to the enterprise that the subscription is assigned to. This corresponds to the billing scope ID of a billing line item. |
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To exclude products from specific publishers from Azure billing, add the following property, and enter a string of publishers to exclude from billing line items in CSV format |
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abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore=Microsoft Office |
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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.
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Enterprise properties for the reseller
In Abiquo, edit you can create these Azure properties in the reseller enterprise and create the enterprise properties:.
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azurecompute-arm_discount | Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard. |
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azurecompute-arm_price_factor | Default value for enterprises that do not have this value in their hierarchy. |
azurecompute-arm_currency_code | Default is "USD". Three character currency code of the bill. |
billing.azure.country_code | Two digit ISO code representing the country where you purchased the subscription. |
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Enterprise properties for reseller customers
For reseller customers, edit the enterprise and create the following propertiesIn Abiquo, you can create these Azure enterprise properties for reseller customers:
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azurecompute-arm_discount | Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard. |
azurecompute-arm_price_factor | The value of the discount or markup applied by the partner to the end user. |
The default value is 1. |
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Enterprise properties for reseller customers with Azure plans
For This table contains a property for reseller customers with Azure plans under “CSP” subscriptions, create the following properties:.
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azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription | For Azure plans under CSP accounts only. |
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.
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For Azure price factor tables see Manage price factors
Configure credentials and privileges in Abiquo
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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.
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