Extended billing dashboards

In version 5.2, Abiquo introduces support for Google Cloud Platform dashboards and Abiquo has integrated the public cloud billing dashboards into the core platform.

As part of the upgrade process:

1. The upgrade will automatically rename the following enterprise properties

   Provider	Property name	Note	Description
   AWS	amazon_bucket	Replaces billing_bucket Changed value for resellers	Name of the S3 bucket where Amazon stores billing data. For resellers, copy the billing bucket name from the configuration files.
   AWS	amazon_report_name	Replaces report_name	Part of the path: amazon_bucket/amazon_bucket_prefix/amazon_report_name/file.csv
   AWS	amazon_bucket_prefix	Replaces report_prefix	Part of the path: amazon_bucket/amazon_bucket_prefix/amazon_report_name/file.csv
   Azure	azurecompute-arm_request_currency_code	Replaces Currency	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)
   Azure	azurecompute-arm_country_code	Replaces RegionInfo	Required for all Azure accounts for billing dashboards Only used for standard subscriptions, two character country code of the bill

2. 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.

   Provider	Property name	Description
   Azure	azurecompute-arm_discount	Provider discount value Previously only required for reseller accounts Can be set to 0 for standard accounts
   Azure	azurecompute-arm_request_currency_code	USD (three character currency code of the bill) (WARNING! Different from currency_code used for conversion factor)
   Azure	country_code	Two character country code of the bill Only used for standard subscriptions,

3. Add the following new enterprise properties as part of the upgrade process

   Provider	Property name	Description
   AWS	amazon_billing_compress_format	For reseller and standard accounts. Compression format for the billing reports. Values can be "ZIP" or "GZIP"
   Azure	azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription	Only for enterprises with Azure plans under CSP subscriptions. Apply it on an enterprise (NOT reseller), which belongs to a tenant with multiple subscriptions, and you only want to compute the cost of the usage of the subscription. If the enterprise doesn’t have the property, it will compute usage+products cost
   Google	dataset_id	For all account types. The ID of the big query dataset where Google will store the billing data

4. Remove the following enterprise properties that are deprecated as part of the upgrade

   Provider	Property name	Description
   Azure	OfferDurableID	Previously for CSP accounts, this was the ID of the customer in the configuration file

5. On the API server, edit the abiquo.properties file and add these new properties:

   1. To configure the cron job to regularly obtain billing data, by default, every 2 hours

      abiquo.billing.task.cron = 0 0 0/2 ? * * *

   2. To configure the number of months to obtain billing data for. By default get data for 4 months

      abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset=4

6. To enable the platform to access the billing data in the provider, edit the Enterprise and go to Credentials → Pricing, and add Pricing credentials. See Obtain public cloud credentials
   • 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.
7. You can remove the old billing dashboard modules and their configuration files. See Remove deprecated billing dashboard configuration v520
8. You can remove the cron configuration to run the billing dashboard