Public cloud billing check tool

This tool checks public cloud billing and customer to Abiquo enterprise mapping.

Change history

Version	Module	Description
6.0.1	Both	This tool is now available as part of the Abiquo platform
6.0.2	AWS	Allow billing check tool to check keynode enterprises too in AWS. New AWS option: `-r, --rootEnterpriseId` to specify reseller or keynode for pricing credentials. This replaces the previous reseller option
6.0.2	AWS	Billing check tool does not take into account an AWS SPP discount. New AWS option: `-spp, --sppDiscount` to include the solution provider program discount.
6.0.2	Both	The seed parameter was removed

Install the tool

You can run this tool on the Abiquo Server.

In Abiquo >= 6.0.1, you can install the package abiquo-billing-public-cloud-check-tool with yum.

The default installation directory is /opt/abiquo-public-cloud-billing-check-tool.

In earlier versions, the project is built using Maven. You can build it with the following command:

mvn clean install

This will output a .jar script as follows.

target/public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar

Configuration

To use this tool in AWS, update your billing-api-user for Abiquo to add the following AWS IAM policy:

"Effect": 
	"Allow", 
	"Action": [ "ce:*", ], 
"Resource": "*"

For both providers, add your connection details to the YAML configuration file

Go to /opt/abiquo-public-cloud-billing-check-tool/config/

Edit the config.yml file and complete the values for your system.

Abiquo_database:
host: localhost
user:
password:
port: 3306
database: kinton
socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
abiquo:
api_url: 'http://localhost/api'
version: '6.0'
user:
#Basic Auth credentials
password:
#OAuth credentials
access-token:
access-token-secret:
consumer-key:
consumer-secret:

General usage

The tool has two main commands to run on Azure or AWS.

java -jar public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar 
-help Usage: <main class> [-hV] [COMMAND] 
Check public cloud billing information. 
-h, --help      Show this help message and exit.
-V, --version   Print version information and exit.
Commands: 
azure  Check for Azure CSP customer costs and subscription mappings.
aws    Check for AWS organization billing costs and account mappings.

Amazon usage

When running the tool on Amazon, you can use the -h option to print the parameters, as shown here.

java -jar public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar aws -h
Usage: <main class> aws [-abhvV] [-spp] [-cfp=<configYAMLPath>] [-d=<resellerDiscount>] [-m=<margin>] [-mt=<month>] -r=<rootEnterpriseId> [-y=<year>]
Check for AWS organization billing costs and account mappings.

-a, --accounts             Run the check for accounts inside an organization mapped to abiquo
-b, --billing              Run check for billing information in Abiquo for the last consolidated billing period
-cfp, --configPath=<configYAMLPath>
                           Specify a different path for the config file. Default path is the same where .jar is located
-d, --discount=<resellerDiscount>
                           Define the discount necessary to subtract to total cost
-h, --help                 Show this help message and exit.
-m, --margin=<margin>      Desired margin to compare cost from AWS and Abiquo database. If difference is bigger than margin, it will be considered
                              as an error. Default is 0
-mt, --month=<month>       Month of the billing period to check. Default is previous month
-r, --rootEnterpriseId=<rootEnterpriseId>
                           Enterprise id of the reseller or key node from which obtain the pricing credentials
-spp, --sppDiscount        If true, include solution provider program discounts in the price
-v, --verbose              Display more detailed information about the process execution
-V, --version              Print version information and exit.
-y, --year=<year>          Year of the billing period to check. Default is the year of the previous month

Only root enterprise option is required. An example of execution using all parameters will be: java -jar public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar aws -a -b -r=1

With the "verbose" option, the tool will display a detailed list of all accounts mapped to Abiquo and the respective enterprises that contain public cloud credentials of each account.

With the "accounts" option, the tool will check for accounts that are:

Used in more than one enterprise in Abiquo
Mapped to the reseller enterprise hierarchy but not present in the reseller organization
Present in the reseller organization but not present mapped to Abiquo

If "verbose" is also selected, it will also print all the accounts of the organization.

With the "billing" option, the the tool will check the difference between AWS cost and Abiquo costs for each mapped account. If "verbose" is activated, the script will print the difference for all enterprises, otherwise it will only print entries with cost difference between AWS and Abiquo.

Azure usage

You can use this tool if you have a set of Azure Plans subscriptions mapped to enterprises. The tool has two main functions:

Check that all subscriptions from a CSP Azure Plan are mapped correctly to Abiquo enterprises
For Azure billing, check the costs of the last month at customer level, not subscription level.

To run the tool for Azure with the help option to discover the parameters, run the following command:

java -jar public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar azure -h

Here is an example of the help parameters output. The "-r" parameter is mandatory.

java -jar public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar azure -h
Usage: <main class> azure [-bhvV] [-azp] [-c=<currencyCode>] [-cfp=<configYAMLPath>] [-d=<resellerDiscount>] [-m=<margin>] [-mt=<month>]
                          -r=<resellerId> [-y=<year>] [-ep=<excludedPublishers>[,<excludedPublishers>...]]...
Check for Azure CSP customer costs and subscription mappings.
      -azp, --azureplan      Run the check for Azure Plan subscriptions in Abiquo with the CSP data
  -b, --billing              Run check for billing information in Abiquo for the last consolidated billing period
  -c, --currencyCode=<currencyCode>
                             Currency code used to retrieve billing line items, Default code is USD
  -cfp, --configPath=<configYAMLPath>
                             Specify a different path for the config file. Default path is the same where .jar is located
  -d, --discount=<resellerDiscount>
                             Define the discount necessary to substract to total cost
  -ep, --excludedPublishers=<excludedPublishers>[,<excludedPublishers>...]

  -h, --help                 Show this help message and exit.
  -m, --margin=<margin>      Desired margin to compare cost from CSP and Abiquo database. If difference is bigger than margin, it will be considered
                               as an error. Default is 0
  -mt, --month=<month>       Month of the billing period to check. Default is previous month
  -r, --reseller=<resellerId>
                             Enterprise id of the reseller from which obtain the pricing credentials
  -v, --verbose              Display more detailed information about the process execution
  -V, --version              Print version information and exit.
  -y, --year=<year>          Year of the billing period to check. Default is the year of the previous month

Here is an example of running the tool on Azure using parameters:

java -jar public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar azure -azp -b -m 2 -v -r 10

And another example:

java -jar /opt/abiquo-public-cloud-billing-check-tool/public-cloud-billing-check-tool.jar azure --azureplan --billing --configPath /home/ansible/config.yml --margin 0 --verbose --discount '0.15' --reseller 3

Exclude publishers option

To exclude products from specific publishers from Azure billing, you can set a new system property "abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore".
This property contains a string of publishers to exclude from billing line items in CSV format. For example "Microsoft Office".
When you are using this property, for the public-cloud-billing-check-tool for Azure, you can use the "--excludedPublishers" option.

Azure example output

In verbose mode the tool will print a detailed list of all the CSP customers, and the respective enterprises that contain public cloud credentials of the same customer.

2021-04-13 12:03:45,267 [main] INFO  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - Customer "Customer Name" with identifier XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXX
2021-04-13 12:03:45,267 [main] INFO  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - 	- Enterprise "Abiquo Enterprise Name" with id 241
2021-04-13 12:03:45,267 [main] INFO  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - 	- Enterprise "Abiquo Other Enterprise Name " with id 244

For the Azure plans check, in verbose mode, the tool will then create output as shown below. Without verbose mode, only warnings will be shown.

2021-04-13 12:05:37,588 [main] INFO  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - Customer on CSP "Customer X" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX has all the subscriptions of the azure plan Azure plan with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX mapped to Abiquo enterprises
2021-04-13 12:05:44,989 [main] WARN  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - There's 1 subscriptions missing in Abiquo from the Azure Plan of customer "Customer missing subscriptions" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. Present subscriptions in Abiquo are: 
-> "Subscription 1" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX mapped to enterprise "Enterprise Abiquo 1" with id 502
-> "Subscription 2" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX mapped to enterprise "Abiquo Enterprise 2" with id 508

The number of missing subscriptions could be positive or negative:

A positive number means there are more entitlements in the CSP Azure Plan than there are in Abiquo
A negative number means there are more subscriptions in Abiquo than in the Microsoft Azure portal. This could be because credentials are not set correctly, or because a subscription was deleted/canceled/deactivated in Azure but the subscription still exists in Abiquo.

For the billing check option, there's no verbose option, so the output will be always the same, as in the example shown below.

You can specify a margin for the log levels of differences between the provider and Abiquo. Differences that are less than or equal to the margin will be INFO level, and differences larger than the margin will be WARN level.

2021-04-21 10:43:58,678 WARN  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - Customer "X" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX has a summary cost of N USD, and in Abiquo database total for all the enterprises of same customer is N-1 USD.
2021-04-21 10:43:58,678 WARN  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - There's a difference of 1 for customer "X" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
2021-04-21 10:43:58,678 WARN  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - Detailed cost for every enterprise belonging to customer "X" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
2021-04-21 10:43:58,679 WARN  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - 	-> Cost for enterprise "X Ent 1" with id 45 is X
2021-04-21 10:43:58,679 WARN  com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - 	-> Cost for enterprise "X Ent 2" with id 56 is X

Azure example errors

The tool tries to log all error messages without stopping. Most of those errors would be errors returned from the Azure CSP API.

A customer in Abiquo was not found in the Azure CSP. You should delete these credentials from Abiquo.

2021-04-21 10:39:50,956 ERROR com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - Customer with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX could not be found in Azure CSP. This could be due that the customer was deleted

A recently created customer won't have any costs for the last month, so the CSP API returns an error. The tool controls this condition, and logs an error.

2021-04-21 10:43:51,220 ERROR com.abiquo.azureplans.Main - Customer "X" with identifier XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX does not have any summary cost. This could be due to the creation date of the customer. Execution will continue