<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Hi,<br><br>Thanks for the tips on accounting the storage of a user. I wasn't aware that the XML output has so much more information.. Actually there is everything I need in there, even IP information. That's perfect!<br><br>Regards<br>ML<br><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:03 PM, Carlos Martín Sánchez <cmartin@opennebula.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6738470902"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br
clear="none"></div><div>I see three ways to approach storage billing:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>- Bill according to the available storage (limit set in the quotas).</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>- Bill the storage used by the running VMs. This was not possible before 4.4, the DISK/SIZE was added for the storage scheduling. Now you can do this:</div>
<div>$ oneacct -u 0 -x | xpath -e "/HISTORY_RECORDS/HISTORY/VM/TEMPLATE/DISK/SIZE"</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>- Bill the DS usage. This usage is tracked in the user quotas, but we don't keep a history for the changes made here. You could create a script to store the user quotas information in a database with a timestamp, and trigger it with a hook [1] on image create and image remove.</div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Regards</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>[1] <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://docs.opennebula.org/stable/integration/infrastructure_integration/hooks.html">http://docs.opennebula.org/stable/integration/infrastructure_integration/hooks.html</a><br clear="none">
</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv6738470902gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">--<br clear="none"><div>Carlos Martín, MSc<br clear="none">Project Engineer</div><div>OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple<br clear="none"><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.opennebula.org/">www.OpenNebula.org</a> | <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:cmartin@opennebula.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:cmartin@opennebula.org">cmartin@opennebula.org</a> | <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/opennebula">@OpenNebula</a></span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:cmartin@opennebula.org" target="_blank"
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<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv6738470902gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:53 PM, ML mail <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mlnospam@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:mlnospam@yahoo.com">mlnospam@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv6738470902gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="yiv6738470902yqt2469373477" id="yiv6738470902yqt96511"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"><div>Hello,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">
I was checking the oneacct tool and I noticed that there is no accounting of the storage used by a user. Am I missing something? <br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">
<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">How does someone bill the storage usage (OS, DATABLOCK, etc) of a
customer on a hourly rate for example? </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">
Regards,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">M.L.</div></div></div></div><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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