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  1. To obtain Azure CSP credentials, do the steps at: Obtain Azure ARM pricing credentials for CSP

  2. In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise

    1. Go to Credentials → Pricing, and add the Azure CSP pricing credentials as follows

      1. API keycsp#tenantId#clientId#accessToken#refreshToken

      2. API secret key: the password for the application

    2. Go to Properties, and to use Azure billing, enter the billing enterprise properties in the reseller enterprise. The default values are as follows:

      1. azurecompute-arm_discount = 0

      2. azurecompute-arm_currency_code = USD

      3. billing.azure.country_code = US

      4. azurecompute-arm_price_factor = 1 (deprecated in Abiquo 6.1)

  3. For Abiquo 6.1 and above, go to PricingPrice factors and create a price factor for the reseller enterprise. See Manage price factors.

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  1. Log in to the AWS management account.

  2. Create a user with the security policy for AWS organization pricing

  3. Configure AWS to supply billing data

  4. Edit the Abiquo reseller enterprise:

    1. Go to CredentialsPricing and add the user credentials

    2. Go to Properties and add AWS enterprise properties to the reseller

  5. For Abiquo 6.1 and above, go to PricingPrice factors and create a price factor for the reseller enterprise. See Manage price factors.

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To give a CSP customer access to compute and billing features:

  1. Create an app in the customer’s Active Directory.

  2. Edit the standard enterprise, and go to CredentialsPublic

  3. Add the credentials for customer in the format Subscription#AppID#TenantID

  4. Go to Properties and add azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription and set the value to true

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  1. Edit the standard enterprise, and go to Credentials → Public

  2. For the Access key ID, enter the customer’s subscription details in this format: Subscription##TenantID

  3. For the Secret access key, enter any value

  4. Select Only for billing

  5. Click Add account to save the credentials. The platform will not validate the account details until it retrieves billing data from the provider

  6. Go to Properties and add azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription and set the value to true

  7. Click Save

Now you can configure the MicrosoftProductsService to manage Customer users, office licenses and Azure plan subscriptions!

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To onboard an account under an AWS organization:

  1. Create a customer scope under the reseller scope 

  2. Create a key node enterprise in the customer scope

  3. Create a standard enterprise in the customer scope

  4. Log in to AWS and in the customer account, create a user

  5. In Abiquo, edit the standard enterprise and add the credentials as public cloud credentials.
    OR Add the account to the standard enterprise as billing only public cloud credentials.

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It is also possible to set currency conversions for the dashboard.

10. Next steps

  1. If the credentials have compute capabilities, and there are VMs for the subscription, you can capture the VMs to manage them with Abiquo by onboarding their virtual network or VPC to create a virtual datacenter in Abiquo. See Onboard from public cloud

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