Github user bhaisaab commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/768#issuecomment-138788442
@wilderrodrigues testing would require some usage data; and global settings
(search for quota in the UI) that are similar to usage ones, there is an enable
setting you set it to true and rest are self-explanatory. In the UI you goto
ui/plugins/plugins.js and enable the UI plugin and you can browse the quota
statement, credits etc via the UI. You start by deploying a usage/mgmt server
with some usage data that is not processed (the quota_calculated column will be
false or zero), you set a tariff with some effective date (you can set this
directly in the cloud_usage database's quota_tariff table with some values, the
quota types are same as usage types) and add some quota credits to an account
(say admin); the next time usage aggregation thread runs, quota calculation
thread would run next and basically tell you how much you've consumed, in case
a threshold is reached like quota is low or exhausted it would send out emails
and/or lock accounts based on global or account level setti
ngs etc.
In summary if someone wants to have a DigitalOcean kind of simple
credit/quota system, it is doable using this feature/plugin where quota or
amounts are credited (prepaid) and they reduce over time based on actual cloud
usage and a tariff. This feature does not support any credit card or payment
gateway; so admins (globally) or domain admins (for a specific domain) can add
credits to an account (on the flip side - to deduct, they can also add a
negative credit).
@abhinandanprateek can you add details on using the plugin on the admin
docs https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-docs-admin/tree/master/source and/or
on the FS as well.
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