To display Azure billing data for resellers and their customers:
Abiquo can obtain Azure billing data
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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
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Enterprise properties for Azure billing
In Abiquo, you can use these Azure properties for billing in a reseller enterprise and in a standard enterprise.
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Property
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You can also configure the billing with the properties described below.
Abiquo properties for Azure billing data display
In Abiquo, on the Abiquo Server, you can configure the following properties for Azure billing.
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abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset
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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: 2
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abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore
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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 --excludedPublishers option.
Default: Microsoft Office
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abiquo.billing.azure.country_code
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For Azure price factors. Two digit ISO code representing the country where you will obtain the product list. Set on Remote Services.
Default: US
Edit the CSP reseller enterprise and set the following enterprise properties:
azurecompute-arm_discount
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: 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:
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total =
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TotalFromCSP/(1 - azurecompute-arm_discount)
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azurecompute-arm_price_factor
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.
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This
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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 -
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this is different from currency_code used for conversion factor. 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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Property
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is set in
abiquo.propertieson Remote Services asabiquo.billing.azure.country_code.
Enterprise properties for Azure reseller customers
In Abiquo, you can create these Azure enterprise properties for reseller customers:
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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: Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
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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.
This property is deprecated in Abiquo 6.1. The upgrade process will migrate the enterprise property to an Abiquo price factor.
See Manage price factors
Enterprise properties for reseller customers with Azure plans
This table contains a property for reseller customers with Azure plans under “CSP” subscriptions.
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Property
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Description
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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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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