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Comment: 6.1.2 - 17388 - Automatically onboard Azure CSP customers

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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. 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.

        Create a scope for a customer of a reseller
    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

       Create a customer enterprise that is a key node

    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

       Create a standard enterprise

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Onboard an Azure customer

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for billing only

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

  1. 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

To give the customer access billing features only only for their tenant (including dashboard display):

  1. Under the reseller, edit the customer, key node (for Azure Plans and Office 365), or standard enterprise

  2. Go to Credentials → Public

  3. For the Access key ID, enter the customer’s TenantID

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  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. Click Save

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Onboard an Azure subscription for billing only

To give a customer access to billing features only for their subscription (including dashboard display, and billing of Office 365):

  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 Add the Microsoft products service to manage Customer users, office licenses and Azure plan subscriptions!

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Onboard an Azure customer for compute and billing

To onboard an Azure customer, choose compute and billing features, or billing only.

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

  1. 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

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

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