Abiquo 4.6.3 introduces a new set of data entities based on platform usage in VM hours. This will enable you to provide flat VM hour pricing to tenants as well as volume discounts for resellers in a hierarchy.
Access to the report data will be controlled by the "ROLE_BILLS_MANAGE" privilege. The report for enterprises is also available to a user of an enterprise with the "ROLE_BILLS_VIEW" privilege.
Report data
Report data will be available through the Abiquo API from the "costusage" endpoints for all levels in a tenant hierarchy, as described in the following table.
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This new feature will make usage data available through the Abiquo API. The data is available from the /action/list endpoint of the Cost Usage Resource. See https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/CostUsageResource.html
Time zones
In the database, the time zones are stored in UTC format. The default billing period is from day 1 to the end of the previous month in UTC format.
Privileges
Access to the data will be controlled by the "ROLE_BILLS_MANAGE" privilege. The report for enterprises is also available to users of an enterprise with the "ROLE_BILLS_VIEW" privilege.
Additional configuration
The administrator can also configure some enterprise properties for use in the reports, as described in the following table.
These properties are updated once a month at the start of the billing period. So if you make a change during a billing period, it will take effect in the next billing period.
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| resellerCodereseller_code | To identify a reseller in the platform |
| contractIdinternal_customer_id | To identify an enterprise 's contract with for the platform provider |
| currencyCodecurrency_code | By default this is "EUR" |
| conversionFactorconversion_factor | For example, to convert from Euros to USD, you could set a value of "1.12". |
Platform volume metrics
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Accounting data
This feature retrieves and stores some data from the Abiquo Accounting system on a daily basis. This data in hours is categorized by resources.
For a list of the categories, see Abiquo accounting services integration#Descriptionofresources. To sort this table by the "Cat." column, click on the header cell.
Filters
To filter this data, you can send a "reportfilterrequestdto" object.
This request body object can contain dates to filter by. You can identify enterprises with an internal_customer_id or with links to a "reseller", "key-node" or "enterprise".