Display Azure billing data
To display Azure billing data for resellers and their customers:
Abiquo can obtain Azure billing data with the credentials you enter when you configure Abiquo to:
Create a reseller with CSP pricing credentials; OR
Create an enterprise with compute or billing only credentials, with a
Contributor
role.
See Onboard an Azure CSP or AWS organization account.
Edit the CSP reseller enterprise and set the following enterprise properties:
azurecompute-arm_discount: decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard. CSP APIs return prices with a discount applied, which we remove to display for customers. We use the formula: total = TotalFromCSP/(1 - azurecompute-arm_discount). This is a required property
azurecompute-arm_currency_code: The default is
USD
. Three character currency code of the bill. Warning - this is different from currency_code used for conversion factor. This is a required propertybilling.azure.country_code: Two digit ISO code representing the country where you purchased the subscription. The default of
US
is set inabiquo.properties
on Remote Services asabiquo.billing.azure.country_code
.
Optionally, configure price factors for markups. See Manage price factors
Edit reseller customer enterprises and add this enterprise property:
azurecompute-arm_discount: Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
If the customer enterprise has Azure plans, they may have a keynode enterprise and several standard enterprises below it to use the plans credentials. Edit the standard enterprises and add this property.
azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription: If this property is
true
, for an Azure plan, only bill for usage - do not include the customer's products and services in the billing data for this enterprise.
Abiquo properties for Azure billing data display
On the Abiquo Server, you can configure the following properties for Azure billing.
abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset: By default, the platform will retrieve billing data for the last two months. To change this set the following property to the number of months to retrieve.
Default value:2
abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore: 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. With the public-cloud-billing-check-tool for Azure, use the
--excludedPublishers
option. Default value:Microsoft Office
On the Remote Services, you can configure the following properties for Azure billing.
abiquo.billing.azure.country_code: For Azure price factors. Two digit ISO code representing the country where you will obtain the product list. Default value:
US
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