This page describes how to configure To display Azure billing data for resellers with CSP accounts.
- For standard accounts see Display Azure billing data for standard accounts.
The platform populates the billing dashboard with data from the cloud provider, so you will need to allow programmatic access to billing in the cloud provider.
- After you configure this feature, the platform may take up to 2 days to display data in the Estimated bill section of the Hybrid dashboard.
To display billing data for reseller tenants and their customers, do these steps.
Configure Azure account
CSP resellers must give consent for the use of the CSP account in the platform. Contact Customer Service for more information.
The consent process will generate the accessToken and the refreshToken, which are part of the pricing credentials.
Configure Abiquo configuration properties
On the Abiquo Server, edit the abiquo.properties file and configure the following properties as required.
By default, the platform will retrieve billing data for the last two months. To change this value, and add the following property with the number of months to retrieve:
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abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset=2 |
By default, Abiquo will bill SaaS resources, such as a Twilio subscription, to the enterprise that the subscription is assigned to. This corresponds to the billing scope ID of a billing line item.
To exclude products from specific publishers from Azure billing, add the following property, and enter a string of publishers to exclude from billing line items in CSV format
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abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore=Microsoft Office |
To use excluded publishers with the public-cloud-billing-check-tool for Azure, use the "--excludedPublishers" option.
In Abiquo configure enterprise properties for the reseller
In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise and create the enterprise properties:
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azurecompute-arm_discount
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and their customers:
Abiquo can obtain Azure billing data with the credentials you enter when you configure Abiquo to:
Create a reseller with CSP pricing credentials; OR
Create an enterprise with compute or billing only credentials, with a
Contributorrole.
See Onboard an Azure CSP or AWS organization account.
Edit the CSP reseller enterprise and set the following enterprise properties:
azurecompute-arm_discount: decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
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CSP APIs return prices with a discount applied, which we remove to display for customers.
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We use the formula: total =
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TotalFromCSP/(1 - azurecompute-arm_discount)
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azurecompute-arm_price_factor
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Default value for enterprises that do not have this value in their hierarchy.
Also used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
Also used for retrieving hardware profile prices from the provider.
The platform will apply changes to the price factor in the next billing period.
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. This is a required property
azurecompute-arm_currency_code
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: The default is
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USD
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. Three character currency code of the bill.
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Warning - this is different from currency_code used for conversion factor
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. This is a required property
billing.azure.country_code
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: Two digit ISO code representing the country where you purchased the subscription.
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The default of
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US
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is set in
abiquo.properties
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on Remote Services as
abiquo.billing.azure.country_code.
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The following properties are deprecated in Abiquo 5.2.0 and the upgrade process will remove them:
- OfferDurableID
- Locale
Configure enterprise properties for reseller customers
For reseller customers, edit the enterprise and create the following properties:
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Optionally, configure price factors for markups. See Manage price factors
Edit reseller customer enterprises and add this enterprise property:
azurecompute-arm_discount
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azurecompute-arm_price_factor
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The value of the discount or markup applied by the partner to the end user.
The default value is 1.
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Configure enterprise properties for reseller customers with Azure plans
For reseller customers with Azure plans under “CSP” subscriptions, create the following properties:
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: Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
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If the customer enterprise has Azure plans, they may have a keynode enterprise and several standard enterprises below it to use the plans credentials. Edit the standard enterprises and add this property.
azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription
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:If this property is
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true
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, for an Azure plan, only bill for usage -
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do not include the customer's products and services in the billing data for this enterprise.
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Configure credentials and privileges in Abiquo
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Abiquo properties for Azure billing data display
On the Abiquo Server, you can configure the following properties for Azure billing.
abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset: By default, the platform will retrieve billing data for the last two months. To change this set the following property to the number of months to retrieve.
Default value:2abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore: By default, Abiquo will bill SaaS resources, such as a Twilio subscription, to the enterprise that the subscription is assigned to. This corresponds to the billing scope ID of a billing line item. To exclude products from specific publishers from Azure billing, add the following property, and enter a string of publishers to exclude from billing line items in CSV format. With the public-cloud-billing-check-tool for Azure, use the
--excludedPublishersoption. Default value:Microsoft Office
On the Remote Services, you can configure the following properties for Azure billing.
abiquo.billing.azure.country_code: For Azure price factors. Two digit ISO code representing the country where you will obtain the product list. Default value:
US
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