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This page contains a brief description and links to each of the Abiquo enhancement packs. |
Abiquo XaaS
The Abiquo XaaS feature uses service plugins to enable you to offer anything as a service and on demand. This will enable users to access custom services, as part of a fully functional multi-cloud platform.
Where to get it: Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform
Documentation: Abiquo XaaS
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backup plugins
Abiquo has created plugins that enable you to offer Backup as a Service with data center backup systems such as Veeam and Networker.
Where to get it: Abiquo Reports, themes and the authentication module can be obtained from Abiquo Support directly.
Documentation: Abiquo reports with Jaspersoft
Abiquo billing integration
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Abiquo 6.1 introduced on-premise billing that will replace the Abiquo billing integration. |
Abiquo Billing Integration is a separate utility that aggregates accounting data and presents it to a billing system. The accounting data can be aggregated to different levels (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly). The Abiquo Billing Integration outputs billing data in generic formats, or to specific billing systems. Billing can be done at either VDC or Enterprise level.
Where to get it: Abiquo Support
Documentation: Abiquo billing integration
Abiquo events notifier
The Abiquo Events Notifier is a Python application that accesses the Abiquo Database and sends emails to notify users of events in Abiquo. You can configure the users, as well as the types of events that will trigger notification emails. By default, the Email Notifier accesses the Abiquo Database every five seconds but you should tune this value for your installation. You can run the Abiquo Events Notifier on the Abiquo Server.
Where to get it: Abiquo Support.
Documentation: Abiquo Events Notifier part of the Abiquo Dev Ops Wiki Space
Template-repository
The template-repository application is a side-project developed to work with Abiquo. It provides a user-friendly interface for creating and managing a template repository. A template repository contains different virtual machine template definitions ready for users to download into the Abiquo appliance library. A template repository can be shared by multiple Abiquo datacenters, allowing convenient centralized template management. The template-repository application is implemented with version 1.2.4 of the Play! Framework, a lightweight Java Web framework. You can install it with the Play! Framework or download the .war file and install it with a Tomcat or other web application server.
Where to get it: Abiquo template-repository on git
Documentation: Template-repository documentation
Abiquo accounting services integration
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Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform
Documentation: Abiquo backup plugins
To create your own backup plugin, you can obtain the Abiquo backup plugin archetype
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Abiquo DRaaS
The DRaaS feature uses Zerto to enable you to offer self-service disaster recovery as a service and on demand. This will enable users to supplement their on-demand backups, as part of a fully protected multi-cloud platform.
Where to get it: Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform
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Abiquo CSS branding
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Abiquo 6.0 introduced Themes management to let you easily create branding within the Abiquo UI. |
In Abiquo you can easily perform manual advanced branding of the new HTML 5 UI using CSS stylesheets.
Where to get it: Samples stylesheets are included as part of the Abiquo platform
Documentation: Abiquo branding guide
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Events catcher
Abiquo has created a tool that interacts with the Abiquo workflow functionality.
Where to get it :https://github.com/abiquo/workflow-client
Documentation: https://www.abiquo.com/blog/abiquo-workflow-acceptance-tool-explained/
Abiquo backup plugins
Abiquo has created plugins that enable you to offer Backup as a Service with data center backup systems such as Veeam and Networker.
Where to get it: Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform
Documentation: Abiquo backup plugins
To create your own backup plugin, use the Backup plugin archetype
Abiquo DRaaS
The DRaaS feature uses Zerto to enable you to offer self-service disaster recovery as a service and on demand. This will enable users to supplement their on-demand backups, as part of a fully protected multi-cloud platformto poll the Abiquo API for events and run event-driven actions.
Where to get it: Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform Contact Abiquo Customer Service
Documentation: Abiquo DRaaSEvents Catcher