Billing and budgeting features in Cloud Provisioning and Governance

  • Release version: Washingtondc
  • Updated February 1, 2024
  • 2 minutes to read

    • Starting with the Rome release, billing and budgeting features are no longer supported for Cloud Provisioning and Governance running on a non-domain-separated instance. However, if you are using Cloud Provisioning and Governance on a domain-separated instance, there is no change in functionality for the billing and budgeting features.

    Billing and budgeting configuration

    When you upgrade Cloud Provisioning and Governance running on a non-domain-separated instance to the Rome release, all active billing schedules are set to inactive. However, all the existing billing records are retained. If you want to clean up the existing billing records, run the clean-up script. For more information, see the Knowledge Base article KB0963749.

    Starting with the Rome release, the following dashboards, dashboard widgets, and budget configuration user interfaces are no longer available for Cloud Provisioning and Governance running on a non-domain-separated instance:
    • Cloud Admin Portal > Overview > Analyze: Analyze your cloud cost and billing

      The following widgets are no longer available on non-domain-separated instances:

      • Cloud Current Month Cost
      • Cloud Cost By Provider
      • Cloud Budget Alerts
      • Cloud Type Spenders
    • Cloud Admin Portal > Govern > Budget
    • Cloud Admin Portal > Analyze > Billing
    • Cloud Admin Portal > Analyze > Budget Consumption
    • Cloud User Portal > Overview
      The following widgets are no longer available on non-domain-separated instances:
      • Current Month Spend
      • Budget
    • Cloud User Portal > Dashboard > Cloud Billing dashboard.
      The following widgets are no longer available on non-domain-separated instances:
      • Cost Trend
      • Cost Aggregate

    For more information on the recommended application for billing download, see Billing and spend analytics.

    For more information on upgrading the domain-separated Cloud Provisioning and Governance deployments to the Rome release, see Upgrade Cloud Provisioning and Governance with the billing feature enabled.

    Upgrade Cloud Provisioning and Governance with the billing feature enabled

    Create and configure the cpgbilling.removal.disabled system property to upgrade Cloud Provisioning and Governance to Rome without disabling its billing feature.

    Before you begin

    Ensure that you create and configure a new property before you upgrade to Rome.

    Role required: admin or sn_cmp.cloud_admin

    About this task

    Create and configure the cpgbilling.removal.disabled system property before initiating an upgrade to Rome. When you set this property to true, the billing features of Cloud Provisioning and Governance continue to work after the upgrade. For more information on creating a system property, see Add a system property. Perform this task if you want to retain the existing data and billing functionality in Cloud Provisioning and Governance. The procedure mentioned in this task works on dedicated instances as well.

    Procedure

    1. In the navigation filter, enter sys_properties.list.
      Note:
      Ensure that the application scope is Cloud Provisioning and Governance.
    2. To create a new system property, select New.
    3. In the Suffix field, enter cpgbilling.removal.disabled.
    4. In the Type field, select true | false.
    5. In the Value field, enter true.
    6. Select Submit.