Create an Azure reseller hierarchy

1. Create public cloud regions

Create public cloud regions for Azure. For more details see Create a public cloud region.

2. Create a reseller scope

To use an Azure reseller (CSP) account, create a reseller scope for your reseller enterprise.

To create a reseller scope:

1. For the Name, we recommend that you use the Reseller name + Scope, for example, ResellerScope

2. For the Parent scope select the Global scope or no scope

3. For Entities, select your public cloud regions.

For full details, see Create a reseller scope

3. Create a reseller enterprise

You will need a reseller enterprise to manage the reseller credentials for your customers.

1. Create a reseller enterprise

   1. For the Default scope select the reseller scope, for example, ResellerScope

   2. Select the Reseller checkbox

   3. If the reseller will use a different mail server to the cloud platform, enter the details of the Mail server

   4. For Datacenters, select the datacenters and public cloud regions that the reseller will use

For full details see Create a reseller enterprise

4. Add Azure reseller credentials and properties

In Azure, you can use reseller credentials (CSP credentials).

1. Do the steps at: Obtain Azure ARM pricing credentials for CSP

2. In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise

3. For Credentials → Pricing, add the Azure CSP pricing credentials.

   1. API key: csp#tenantId#clientId#accessToken#refreshToken

   2. API secret key: the password for the application

4. For Properties, to use Azure billing, enter the billing enterprise properties in the reseller enterprise. The default values are as follows:

   1. azurecompute-arm_discount = 0

   2. azurecompute-arm_currency_code = USD

   3. billing.azure.country_code = US

   4. azurecompute-arm_price_factor = 1 (deprecated in Abiquo 6.1)

5. For Abiquo 6.1 and above, go to Pricing → Price factors and create a price factor for the reseller enterprise. See Manage price factors.

5. Create a reseller customer scope

You can create a tenant hierarchy with a reseller scope at the top level and the customers below that. To create customers of your reseller, for each customer, create a customer scope and set the reseller scope as the parent scope.

To create a reseller customer scope:

1. Go to Users → Scopes and click the + add button or select and edit an existing scope

2. For the Name, we recommend that you use the customer name and Scope, for example, Customer1Scope

3. For the Parent scope, select the reseller scope, for example, ResellerScope.

4. For the Entities, select the public cloud region/s.

6. Create a customer enterprise

For each customer of the CSP, create a key node enterprise with the customer scope.

To create a customer enterprise:

1. Go to Users view and at the bottom of the Enterprises list, click the + add button

2. For the Default scope, select the customer scope, for example, Customer1Scope

3. Select the Key node checkbox to support

   • Office365 customers

   • Multiple Azure subscriptions (Plans)

   • Other sub-tenants (e.g. AWS partner accounts)

4. For Properties, add tenant metadata as required. This may include account IDs and discounts. You can also push this metadata to VM variables but do not use confidential data.

7. Create customer subtenants

For each customer, for each Azure Plan subscription create a standard enterprise to use the subscription for compute features or displaying billing information.

To create a subtenant enterprise:

1. Create a standard enterprise (not a key node)

2. For the Default scope, select the Customer1Scope

To give the customer access to compute and billing features:

1. Create an app in the customer’s Active Directory.

2. Edit the standard enterprise, and go to Credentials → Public

3. Add the credentials for the Azure plan in the format Subscription#AppID#TenantID

4. Go to Properties and add azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription and set the value to true

OR

To give the customer access billing features only (including dashboard display, and billing of Office 365):

1. Edit the standard enterprise, and go to Credentials → Public

2. For the Access key ID, enter the customer’s Azure plan details in this format: Subscription##TenantID

3. For the Secret access key, enter any value

4. Select Only for billing
   

   

5. Click Add account to save the credentials. The platform will not validate the account details until it retrieves billing data from the provider

6. Go to Properties and add azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription and set the value to true

7. Click Save