This page describes how to configure Azure billing data for resellers with CSP accounts.
For standard accounts see Display Azure billing data for standard accounts.
The platform populates the billing dashboard with data from the cloud provider, so you will need to allow programmatic access to billing in the cloud provider.
After you configure this feature, the platform may take up to 2 days to display data in the Estimated bill section of the Hybrid dashboard.
You should add credentials from each CSP account to the corresponding Abiquo enterprise within a reseller and tenant hierarchy. For more details, see Add public cloud or Abiquo cloud reseller guide
To display billing data for reseller tenants and their customers, do the following steps.
Configure Azure account
CSP resellers must give consent for the use of the CSP account in the platform. Contact Customer Service for more information.
The consent process will generate the accessToken and the refreshToken, which are part of the pricing credentials.
Configure Abiquo configuration properties
On the Abiquo Server, edit the abiquo.properties file and configure the following properties as required.
By default, the platform will retrieve billing data for the last two months. To change this value, and add the following property with the number of months to retrieve:
abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset=2
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
abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore=Microsoft Office
To use excluded publishers with the public-cloud-billing-check-tool for Azure, use the "--excludedPublishers" option.
In Abiquo configure price factors
To add a markup for your reseller and customers of your reseller, use an Abiquo price factor.
Go to Pricing view → Price factors and add a price factor for the Azure provider.
You can also create markups by product type and product ID.
In Abiquo configure enterprise properties for the reseller
In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise and create the enterprise properties:
Property | Description | |
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azurecompute-arm_discount | Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard. | |
azurecompute-arm_price_factor | Default value for enterprises that do not have this value in their hierarchy. |
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azurecompute-arm_currency_code | Default is "USD". Three character currency code of the bill. | |
billing.azure.country_code | Two digit ISO code representing the country where you purchased the subscription. |
This property is deprecated in Abiquo 6.1. The upgrade process will migrate the enterprise property to an Abiquo price factor
Warning - This is different from currency_code used for conversion factorConfigure enterprise properties for reseller customers
For reseller customers, edit the enterprise and create the following properties:
Property | Description | |
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azurecompute-arm_discount | Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard. | |
azurecompute-arm_price_factor | The value of the discount or markup applied by the partner to the end user. |
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Configure enterprise properties for reseller customers with Azure plans
For reseller customers with Azure plans under “CSP” subscriptions, create the following properties:
Property | Description |
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azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription | For Azure plans under CSP accounts only. |
Configure price factors for reseller customers
For reseller customers, you can configure price factors for the Azure provider, for product types, and for product IDs.
To create a price factor: Go to Pricing → Price factors On the providers list, click + add Select the Provider. For private cloud, the provider is For Azure and AWS, you can also select the Bill type and Product ID For Enterprise associations, select the type of association, which can be All, Reseller, or Key node. Abiquo will use your selection to create the list of Enterprises that match this type. For For the Enterprise association, enter the Value, which is the markup or discount. For example, to use a markup of 10%, enter To exclude a product, you can set a value of Click Add. Select and add more enterprise associations as required. (You can also edit the price factor later to add more then.) Click Save When you create a price factor, the platform will assign your user scope to it, and only users with the same scope will be able to view and manage the price factor.ONPREMISE
Reseller or Key node, select an Enterprise1.1 and to add a discount of 10%, enter 0.9. 0
For Azure price factor tables see Manage price factors
Configure credentials and privileges in Abiquo
For any reseller customer that will not use the compute features of the provider, to display data on the Billing dashboard, enter compute Credentials on the Public tab in the format Subscription##TenantId.
See Add credentials of reseller customers for billing only.In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise and go to Credentials → Pricing and add the Pricing credentials,
In Abiquo, users will require the privileges to Display hybrid dashboard tab and View bills. See Configure dashboard display