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  1. Create public cloud regions for your public cloud providers. See Create a public cloud region

  2. Go to UsersScopes and Create a reseller scope:

    1. Make the Name descriptive, for example, ResellerNameScope

    2. For the Parent scope select theGlobal scope (recommended) or no scope

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    3. For Entities, select your public cloud regions.

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  3. Go to Users and Create a reseller enterprise:

    1. For the Default scope select ResellerNameScope

    2. Select the Reseller checkbox

    3. If the reseller will use its own mail server, enter the details of the Mail server

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    4. For Datacenters, select the datacenters and public cloud regions that the reseller and its customers will use, as in the scope.

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  1. Do the steps to Obtain Azure ARM pricing credentials for CSP

  2. To add the Azure credentials 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

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    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. Create a customer scope:

    1. Go to UsersScopes and click the + add button (or edit an existing customer scope)

      1. For the Name, we recommend that you include the customer name, for example, CustomerScope

      2. For the Parent scope, select the reseller scope, for example, ResellerScope.

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    2. For the Entities, select the datacenters and public cloud region/s.

  2. Create a customer enterprise:

    1. Go to Users view and at the bottom of the Enterprises list, click the + add button

    2. For the Default scope, select the customer scope, for example, CustomerScope

    3. Select the Key node checkbox to support Office365 customers, Multiple Azure subscriptions (Plans), and AWS organization accounts, and so on

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    4. For Properties,add tenant metadata as required

  3. For each subscription in an Azure plan or AWS organization, create a standard enterprise:

    1. Create a standard enterprise (not a key node)

    2. For the Default scope, select the CustomerScope

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Onboard an Azure customer

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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

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  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

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Or you can wait for the automatic billing process that will run every day. (You canCustomize Abiquo billing dashboard processesconfigure it with an Abiquo property).

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