Cloud Infrastructure Service Plan
The article provides instruction how to create Service Plan in PBA for Parallels Automation Cloud Infrastructure (PACI) services.
Prerequisites: Service Template for Cloud Infrastructure services must already be created in POA.
Make sure that correct units of measure are configured for PACI resources in PBA:
- Bandwidth resources: Mbpsh (Mb per second per hour)
- RAM resources: GB/h (GB per hour)
- Disk resources: GB/h (GB per hour)
- CPU resources: GHz/h (GHz per hour)
Warning: PACI resources should not be included to composite resources on PBA side.
Follow the steps below to create Service Plan for Cloud Infrastructure services in PBA.
Configure Plan Category
- Log in PBA Provider Control Panel
- Go to Product Director > Plan Manager > Plan Categories
- Create new Plan Category for Cloud Infrastructure Service Plan or make sure that desired Plan Category already exists
Create Service Plan
- Go to Product Director > Plan Manager > Service Plans
- Click the
Add New Service Plan
button - Enter desired plan name in the
Name
field - Select POA PACI Service Template in the
Service Template
field - Select desired Plan Category in the
Plan Category
field - Select desired Service Terms in the
Service Terms
field - Provide short and long description in the corresponding fields
- Check
Published
andAttach Usage Statistics
checkboxes Set the desired options in the
Billing Information
section:- Customer Class
- Billing Period Type
- Charge for Subscription
- Auto-Renewal
- Set Billing Period to 1
Click
Next
Choose
1 Month(s)
Subscription PeriodClick
Next
Leave zero values for the following prices:
- Setup Fee
- Recurring Fee
- Renewal Fee
- Transfer Fee
- Cancelation Fee
- Non Refundable Amount
Check all
Show Zero Price
checkboxesPress the
Setup Plan Rates
buttonOn the next screen set up Plan Rates. Choose all Cloud Infrastructure resources (whose names start from
CI
):- Set desired
Overuse Fee
- Check
Show in Store
checkboxes ( for PBA 5.4 see note below). - Check
Measurable
checkboxes - Change values for
Included units
from -1 (Unlimited) to 0
- Set desired
- Click
Finish
Note: The Show in Store
option must be disabled for 'stopped' resources in the resource rates in Service Plan (CI bandwidth limit stopped, CI Virtual Machine CPU Usage stopped, CI RAM usage stopped, CI Container CPU Usage stopped) and enabled for 'running' resources (CI bandwidth limit running, CI Virtual Machine CPU Usage running, CI RAM usage running, CI Container CPU Usage running), as otherwise estimated price in the store will be calculated based on price of stopped resource. Since PBA 5.5 the price will be based on running resources independently on the Show in Store
option.
Configure Sales Category
Go to Product Director > Plan Manager > Sales Categories
- Create new Sales Category for Cloud Infrastructure Service Plan or make sure that desired Sales Category already exists.
Configure Resource Category
- Go to Product Director > Resource Manager > Resource Categories
- Add new Resource Category or make sure that desired Resource Category already exists
Add all Cloud Infrastructure resources into the desired category or make sure that they are added to it already:
Select desired Resource Category
Switch to the Resources tab
Click the Add New Resource to Category button
Check all 'CI' resources (whose names start with 'CI')
Check also the following resources:
- Additional Staff Members
- IP addresses
- IPv6 Addresses
- DNS Hosting
- DNS management
Click the Add Selected Resource(s)
button
Set Up Online Store
Configure Online Store screens
- Go to Product Director > Online Store Manager > Screens
- Click the
Generate Screens
button - Click on the generated screen with ID
PACI_SCREEN
- Switch to the
Parameters
tab - Set the
CATEGORY_LIST_ID
parameter to the ID of the Sales Category you created for Cloud Infrastructure plan - Set the
RESOURCE_CATEGORY
to the ID of the Resource Category you created for Cloud Infrastructure resources
Synchronize the Online Store
- Go to Product Director > Online Store Manager > Synchronization Settings
- Press the
Synchronize
button