Hello All. I was wondering what were the abilities to get some billing system of consumed ressources ?
I saw you can extract some datas on the acs cloud_usage mysql database. I'm looking for a good beginning of a solution of ressources billing. If this doesn't really exists yet, so what about beginning the work on a billing plugin that could evolves regardless of the ACS mgmt server ? It could be very useful to generate a report of the used ressources, group ressources by client (so need to have some crm specs or crm interconnexion, or just import the client's db (name,internal_ref_key, hosting_client_ref_key) or somewhat like a client ref key) So we can retrieve the information for a client to what ressources he used for a given period per example. For a first phase, the availability to extract these informations into a csv format, for a second phase the availability to perform an export and to post it with a framework defining the way it is transferred (url, key, method, encryption, ack, etc ...) toward such an intranet tool. Also the availability to give a production cost and the billing price for each ressource so we can have the financial results of the global activity in a given period. Here are some ideas, the thread is open, any idea is welcome and any advices about such a feature. Regards, Benoit.
