In version Abiquo 5.2, Abiquo introduces support for 2 extends the billing dashboards to support the Google Cloud Platform dashboards and .
And Abiquo has also integrated the public cloud billing dashboards into the core platform.
As part of the upgrade process:
The upgrade will automatically rename the following enterprise properties
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amazon_bucket
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Replaces billing_bucket
Changed value for resellers
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Name of the S3 bucket where Amazon stores billing data. For resellers, copy the billing bucket name from the configuration files.
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Replaces report_name
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Part of the path: amazon_bucket/amazon_bucket_prefix/amazon_report_name/file.csv
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Part of the path: amazon_bucket/amazon_bucket_prefix/amazon_report_name/file.csv
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- Required for all Azure accounts for billing dashboards
- USD (three character currency code of the bill) (WARNING! Different from currency_code used for conversion factor) (All accounts)
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- Required for all Azure accounts for billing dashboards
- Only used for standard subscriptions, two character country code of the bill
Edit the abiquo.properties file, and assign default values for these properties, using the prefix/format abiquo.*?
You can also assign enterprise properties for specific enterprises.
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azurecompute-arm_discount
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- Provider discount value
- Previously only required for reseller accounts
- Can be set to 0 for standard accounts
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- USD (three character currency code of the bill) (WARNING! Different from currency_code used for conversion factor)
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- Two character country code of the bill
- Only used for standard subscriptions,
Add the following new enterprise properties as part of the upgrade process
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amazon_billing_compress_format
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dataset_id
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Remove the following enterprise properties that are deprecated as part of the upgrade
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To configure the cron job to regularly obtain billing data, by default, every 2 hours
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abiquo.billing.task.cron = 0 0 0/2 ? * * * |
To configure the number of months to obtain billing data for. By default get data for 4 months
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abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset=4 |
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- Note: When you Pricing credentials to an enterprise with a pricing model, this will also activate price list synchronization to onboard hardware profile prices from Amazon and Azure.
See Import hardware profile prices.
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Your users can now display the billing data in the Home view dashboard on the Hybrid page.
For more details, see Hybrid#Billingdetails.
The dashboards can display data for customers of resellers (such as APN and CSP), through a reseller configuration.
And they can display data for standard accounts that customers obtained directly from the cloud provider.
The Google Cloud Platform billing data will display in the Abiquo multi-cloud platform. To configure this feature, do these steps:
Obtain your Google Cloud Platform credentials. See Obtain Google Cloud Platform credentials
Allow the Abiquo platform to access and display your billing data. See Display Google Cloud Platform billing data
The platform will display the Last bills from your Google Cloud Platform account with a breakdown of the bills by services.
And it will also display an amount as the Estimated bill for the current month based on daily usage data.
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For Azure and Amazon, you will need to upgrade the billing dashboards as part of the Abiquo upgrade process. See Upgrade Abiquo
To add the billing dashboards to your environment, follow the instructions at: Display cloud provider billing data.