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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 https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311372059/Display+Azure+billing+data#Enterprise-properties-for-the-Azure-reseller . 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 pricingConfigure AWS to supply billing data

  3. https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311372049/Display+Amazon+billing+data#Configure-AWS

  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 https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311372049/Display+Amazon+billing+data#Configure-resellers-in-Abiquo

  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 https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311370762/Obtain+Azure+ARM+credentials#Create-an-ARM-application-using-Azure-portal 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

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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

Now you can configure Add the MicrosoftProductsServiceMicrosoft products service to manage Customer users, office licenses and Azure plan subscriptions!

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To onboard a customer of an AWS organization:

  1. Create a customer scope https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311361611/Abiquo+cloud+reseller+guide#Create-a-scope-for-a-reseller-customer under the reseller scope 

  2. Create a key node enterprise https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311361611/Abiquo+cloud+reseller+guide#Create-a-reseller-customer 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 with public cloud credentials for billing only. See Add AWS and Azure credentials only for billing

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Onboard an AWS organization into a key node

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  1. Create a standard enterprise in the scope of the key node

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

  3. 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 for billing only. See Add AWS and Azure credentials only for billing

Run billing

You can now run billing for the reseller:

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

It is You can also possible to set currency conversions for the billing dashboard. See Configure billing dashboard currency conversions .

Onboard VMs and resources

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