Abiquo enhancement packs

This page contains a brief description and links to each of the Abiquo enhancement packs.

Abiquo XaaS

The Abiquo XaaS feature uses service plugins to enable you to offer anything as a service and on demand. This will enable users to access custom services, as part of a fully functional multi-cloud platform.

• Where to get it: Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform

• Documentation: Abiquo XaaS

Abiquo reports

Abiquo Reporting is an Abiquo enhancement package that offers integration with a Jaspersoft standalone reports server web service. Abiquo Reporting allows access to the reporting system from within the Abiquo user interface and authentication on the reports server with Abiquo user credentials. Abiquo Reporting includes a JasperReports Server repository with an Abiquo theme and a set of basic Abiquo reports that our customers can use as the basis for their own reports based on data from the Abiquo platform.

• Where to get it: Abiquo Reports, themes and the authentication module can be obtained from Abiquo Support directly.

• Documentation: Abiquo reports with Jaspersoft

Abiquo billing integration

Abiquo Billing Integration is a separate utility that aggregates accounting data and presents it to a billing system. The accounting data can be aggregated to different levels (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly). The Abiquo Billing Integration outputs billing data in generic formats, or to specific billing systems. Billing can be done at either VDC or Enterprise level.

• Where to get it: Abiquo Support

• Documentation: Abiquo billing integration

Abiquo events notifier

The Abiquo Events Notifier is a Python application that accesses the Abiquo Database and sends emails to notify users of events in Abiquo. You can configure the users, as well as the types of events that will trigger notification emails. By default, the Email Notifier accesses the Abiquo Database every five seconds but you should tune this value for your installation. You can run the Abiquo Events Notifier on the Abiquo Server.

• Where to get it: Abiquo Support.
  Documentation: Abiquo Events Notifier part of the Abiquo Dev Ops Wiki Space

Template-repository

The template-repository application is a side-project developed to work with Abiquo. It provides a user-friendly interface for creating and managing a template repository. A template repository contains different virtual machine template definitions ready for users to download into the Abiquo appliance library. A template repository can be shared by multiple Abiquo datacenters, allowing convenient centralized template management. The template-repository application is implemented with version 1.2.4 of the Play! Framework, a lightweight Java Web framework. You can install it with the Play! Framework or download the .war file and install it with a Tomcat or other web application server.

• Where to get it: Abiquo template-repository on git

• Documentation: Template-repository documentation

Abiquo accounting services integration

Abiquo Accounting Services Integration is a set of services for measuring which resources are being consumed and when they are being consumed. These accounting features are essential for the development of pay-per-use models for cloud computing. The resources in the accounting system can be grouped by different parameters and services, such as virtual datacenters or enterprises. Some resources are billed according to the amount reserved for use (by reservation), while others are billed according to the amount that was actually consumed (by consumption). 

• Where to get it: Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform

• Documentation: Abiquo accounting services integration

Abiquo branding

In Abiquo you can easily perform manual branding of the new HTML 5 UI using CSS stylesheets.

• Where to get it: Samples stylesheets are included as part of the Abiquo platform

• Documentation: Abiquo branding guide

Abiquo workflow tool

Abiquo has created a tool that interacts with the Abiquo workflow functionality.

• Where to get it :https://github.com/abiquo/workflow-client

• Documentation: https://www.abiquo.com/blog/abiquo-workflow-acceptance-tool-explained/

Abiquo backup plugins

Abiquo has created plugins that enable you to offer Backup as a Service with data center backup systems such as Veeam and Networker.

• Where to get it:  Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform

• Documentation: Abiquo backup plugins

• To create your own backup plugin, previously you could use the Backup plugin archetype

Abiquo DRaaS

The DRaaS feature uses Zerto to enable you to offer self-service disaster recovery as a service and on demand. This will enable users to supplement their on-demand backups, as part of a fully protected multi-cloud platform.

• Where to get it: Can be enabled as part of the Abiquo platform

• Documentation: Abiquo DRaaS