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Introduction
To work with Azure ARM Microsoft Partner Center in Abiquo, you'll need to add pricing credentials to your Abiquo enterprise. You can add one set of credentials from a subscription to one Abiquo enterprise onlyreseller enterprise.
Create an
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- You may require separate credentials for some groups of regions, for example, regions in China.
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Application with the following Azure attributes:
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Application (client) ID
Directory (tenant) ID
Application password
Follow this guide to
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give consent for the Application to work
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with:
AccessToken
RefreshToken
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Abiquo provides these instructions as a guide only and we update them occasionally. Abiquo recommends that customers follow the instructions of the cloud provider, for example, at the time of writing for Azure: |
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Obtain details of your Azure subscription
To obtain details of your Azure subscription, do the following steps.
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Click on your subscription
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If the subscription does not display, check that you have selected the correct directory. Click on the directory name in the top right corner. From here you can switch directory |
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Save the Subscription ID to enter in the Abiquo credentials.
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Create an ARM application using Azure
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Abiquo uses the ARM application ID to access the ARM API and compute features.
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To use the platform's billing features only (without the compute features), you do not need an ARM application. See Add credentials of reseller customers for billing only |
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portal
Log in to the Azure portal using a user with Admin agent role
In the Home view, under Azure services, click Azure Active Directory. Or in the search box, enter
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Azure Active Directory
. Select Azure Active Directory.
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On the left, click App registrations
Click New registration.
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To register the application, enter a Name, select the Supported account types (Account in any organizational directory), and enter a URL. If you know the URI of the partner consent service, enter it now. Or you can enter any URL and edit the application and change this value later. Click Register.
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Save the Application (client) ID and the Directory (tenant) ID, because you will need to configure them in Abiquo. Then click Certificates & secrets.
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To configure the password for the application, click New client secret, which will open the Add a client secret section. Enter a Description and an Expiry duration, then click Add.
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The Azure portal will display the application password ONCE ONLY. You must use this password in Abiquo, so make sure to save it, because Azure will not display it again.
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Go to the Subscriptions menu, select the subscription you want to associate the application with, and add a new permission for it with these steps.
Select Access control (IAM)
Click Add
- Click Add role assignment
In the dialog, select the Contributor role, and in the Select box, enter the name of the application. Then click Save
Go to the Subscriptions menu again and select Resource providers
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Search for the Microsoft.Compute provider and click Register to add it for the subscription if it is not already added
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Assign permissions to the App
After you create the App, go to API permissions and add the following permissions.
For each of the permissions:
Click + Add
Click the Grant for ... button
Azure Service Management: user_impersonation
Microsoft Graph: Application.ReadWrite.All, RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory
Microsoft Partner: user_impersonation
Microsoft Partner Center: user_impersonation
After you add the permissions, and grant them for your account, the center of the screen should look as follows.
Add the application’s service principal to the Admin agents group in the CSP Partner’s Azure AD Active directory.
You can search forMicrosoft Partner
andMicrosoft Partner Center
using their application IDs, which are4990cffe-04e8-4e8b-808a-1175604b879f
andfa3d9a0c-3fb0-42cc-9193-47c7ecd2edbd
respectively, in the APIs my organization owns section.
Configure authorization for the use of Azure
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ARM credentials in the multi-cloud platform
As Azure now requires multi-factor authentication for CSP credentials, you must authorize the use of your credentials in the multi-cloud platform to obtain your access and refresh tokens for use in pricing credentials
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To create your own server to grant consent for the use of your Azure credentials, follow the instructions in the Azure documentation.
For general instructions, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/develop/partner-center-authentication#app--user-authentication and for Java instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/develop/partner-center-authentication#java-appuser-authentication.
To complete the configuration:
Log in to the Azure portal
Edit your Azure application
In the Redirect URI, enter the URL of the partner consent service.
Generate new Azure access and refresh tokens for use in the multi-cloud platform
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Add the Azure CSP pricing and billing credentials to Abiquo
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Your administrator must create at least one compatible public cloud region in Azure ARM
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They must allow your enterprise to access this region.
Some regions may require separate credentials, for example regions in China, and you will need to obtain credentials and create these regions separately. See Create a public cloud region .
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add pricing and billing credentials for CSP accounts:
Edit the main tenant, and go to Credentials →
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Pricing
Add the pricing credentials in the following format
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csp#dir-id#app-
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id#accessToken#refreshToken
So enter the text
csp#
, the Directory (tenant) ID, Application (client) ID,
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Add the Azure CSP pricing and billing credentials to Abiquo
Before you add credentials, your administrator must create at least one compatible public cloud region in Azure ARM, and allow your enterprise to access this region. Some regions may require separate credentials, for example regions in China, and you will need to obtain credentials and create these regions separately. See Create a public cloud region
For CSP accounts, the main tenant should add the pricing credentials in the following format:
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csp#dir-id#app-id#accessToken#refreshToken |
This means you should enter the text "csp", Directory (tenant) ID, Application (client) ID, access token, and refresh token as a single string and separate each element with a '#'.
The customer tenants do not need to add pricing credentials. The platform will use the CSP credentials for the customer tenants in the hierarchy.
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access token, and refresh token as a single string and separate each element with a
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566058dd-80bc-4ccc-8d6e-e9ac00c4b4a1#8927a710-4f4d-4d11-811c-94c36e9b2c3f#fbb96b71-f92c-4f78-acf7-cd88bdee36b1 |
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(number/hash character).Add billing enterprise properties in the reseller enterprise. The default values are as follows:
azurecompute-arm_discount = 0
azurecompute-arm_currency_code = USD
billing.azure.country_code = US
For more details, see Display Azure billing data.
Go to Pricing → Price factors and create price factors for the reseller enterprise. See Manage price factors.
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Obtain credentials for CSP customers
To activate compute and billing for a CSP customer:
Create an app in the customer’s Active Directory
Add the Azure ARM compute credentials to Abiquo for the customer enterprise.
If your customers will use billing only, then you can enter the subscription and tenant details only. See Add credentials of Azure reseller customers for billing only.
When customers have billing credentials, the billing data should display on the dashboard, see Display Azure billing data .