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Technical white paper

Integrated Billing Solutions

with HP CSA 4.00

Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Part 1. HP CSA Concepts .............................................................................................................................................................. 2

Part 2. Billable Service Conditions ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Part 3. Billable Intervals ............................................................................................................................................................... 4

Part 4. How to Collect Information from HP CSA with REST Calls ..................................................................................... 5

Solution Developers’ Responsibilities .................................................................................................................................. 5

How to test REST Communication ........................................................................................................................................ 5

HP CSA Certificates ................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Part 5. Sample API Sequence and Responses ........................................................................................................................ 7

Data Collection Sequence ....................................................................................................................................................... 7

Step 1: Get a credential token for an authenticated user ................................................................................................ 8

Step 2: Retrieve the list of organizations ............................................................................................................................ 8

Step 3: For each organization, get lists of subscribers and other information ........................................................... 9

Step 4: For each subscriber, get subscription information ............................................................................................ 10

Part 6. Utilization Properties ..................................................................................................................................................... 12

Get Utilization Information for a Subscription .................................................................................................................. 13

Part 7. Group Ownership ........................................................................................................................................................... 14

How to Determine Group Ownership and Original Subscriber ...................................................................................... 14

Part 8. HP CSA 4.00 Changes and Issues ............................................................................................................................... 15

Summary of content (16 pages)

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Technical white paper Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Part 1. HP CSA Concepts .............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Part 2. Billable Service Conditions ........
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 Introduction This document is intended to help solution developers create billing solutions using the subscription and resource information in HP Cloud Service Automation (HP CSA). See the HP CSA Concepts Guide for an overview of HP CSA concepts. Chargeback data from HP CSA is used to support internal or external billing functions. Elements of the data can include infrastructure, application licensing, and network costs.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 – When the service is scheduled to start and end. Billing solutions report the cost of HP CSA services from the time they are deployed until they expire or are cancelled. This is referred to as subscription-based billing. If no End Date is specified, the subscription will continue to run until it is cancelled. – Group ownership.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 • Organization In HP CSA terminology an organization contains a set of persons. HP CSA service catalogs and pricing are assigned to specific organizations. Like HP CSA persons, organizations are defined in LDAP. For private HP CSA installations, organizations can include departments such as marketing, R&D, and payroll. For public HP CSA installations, organizations are independent customer organizations.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 Figure 7. Information in a Service Instance If a service expires, is cancelled, or fails, the billing solution should stop accruing charges against that service. Part 4. How to Collect Information from HP CSA with REST Calls HP CSA exposes usage and billing information in the service instances through a set of REST (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs. Data can be returned in either XML or JSON format.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 Figure 8. Example Configuration of the REST Console Plug-in Configure the basic authorization in the Authorization tab using a username and password for administrative user or other user with appropriate permissions on your HP CSA 4.00 system. Figure 9.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 Figure 10. Example Output in the Response Tab HP CSA Certificates When a user logs into HP CSA through a web browser, HP CSA presents a certificate to “prove” to the user that it is the HP CSA site that it claims to be. By default, HP CSA does not offer a certificate that has been validated by a trusted authority. At this point, the user has the choice of accepting the offered certificate or ending the session. Figure 11.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 4. For each subscriber, retrieve information on their subscriptions including pricing, options, start and stop dates, and more. Figure 12. Sample REST API sequence In the following steps, please note that XML responses will be abbreviated in most examples, highlighting the content of most interest for that example. In practice, you will receive substantially more XML content returned by the REST.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 … … Save each subscriber’s ID (for other API calls) and subscribers’ names. You can keep the catalog information or collect it on a subscriber-by-subscriber basis (Step 4).
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 … SETUP … … 1200.0 0.0 # priceingModel contains the currency and billing period.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 Part 7. Group Ownership Figure 13. Group Ownership in HP CSA Marketplace Portal When ordering a service in HP CSA 4.00, a subscriber can specify that it is to be co-owned by other subscribers. For some customers, this is an important feature, but it requires some additional processing for the chargeback solution. Here are some points to keep in mind: • The subscription will be listed for every subscriber in the specified group.
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Technical white paper | Integrated Billing Solutions with HP CSA 4.00 Save the catalogId value. Next, get the ID of the . This includes information from the original request submission. Look for the value of /ServiceSubscription/initiatingRequest/ID.
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