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Overview

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Your Microsoft Azure Account lets you deploy, build, and manage your applications from anywhere using your preferred language and framework. Before you provision your Microsoft Azure account, you'll need to onboard your CSP account.

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Before You Begin

  1. Ensure that your Azure account is a Microsoft CSP account.

  2. Obtain your CSP account ID. Visit the Microsoft Partner Network and:

    1. Click on the User Profile on the top left > Select View Account > Partner Profile.

    2. Copy the Microsoft ID (Account ID.)
      Example: a478f132-3bd7-496d-9b4f-337e88c68c7e.

  3. Ensure that the service account used for onboarding the CSP Account in HyperCloudâ„¢ Platform has the Admin Agent permission.

Note

  • The HyperCloudTM Platform (HCP):

    • Will not make any changes to your CSP Customer Account or use the Admin-on-behalf-of capabilities at any point.

    • Will read information about billing, invoice and, customers' subscriptions, and usage.

Onboarding Your Microsoft Azure (Partner) Account

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Follow these steps to onboard a Microsoft CSP Partner account onto the HCP portal:

  • Log in to your HCP portal account.

  • Click Administration and navigate to Account Management > Azure > CSP.

  • Click on Add Account and enter the following information:

    • Enter the Account Name

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      Example: Contoso CSP (US)

    • Enter the Account ID

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      Example: a478f132-3bd7-496d-9b4f-337e88c68c7e

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    • Add the percentage of margin in the following numeric fields. The discounts added here would be reflected in the Cost and Usage reports.

    • Microsoft Discount

    • Partner Markup for Managed Customers

    • Partner Markup for Non-Managed Customers

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  • Click Add. The changes are saved successfully.

  • Repeat Step-3 to add multiple CSP accounts.

Note

  • [1] This is the discount that Microsoft provides to your CSP Partner

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  • to calculate list prices.

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    1. Click on LOGIN WITH MICROSOFT to login to the CPV account using accent token. Review the permissions and Click Accept. CSP Account will be configured in HyperCloudâ„¢ Platform.

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  1. Repeat this step to add multiple CSP Accounts.

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    • Discounts do not apply to Microsoft Azure Plans.

Discovering CSP Customers

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Once a CSP Account is added to the HCP portal successfully, your CSP Administrators can trigger a discovery of the customers. To trigger a discovery, use the following steps:

  1. Click on the Administration Tab > Account Management > Azure > CSP.

  2. Locate the CSP Account > Click on the ellipse menu [1] > Trigger Discover.

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    3. The HCP portal will populate the dashboard with customers, and update the CSP customers discovered.

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  • [1] Depending on the number of customers on your CSP account, the discovery process may take 30-60 minutes to complete.

CSP Dashboard Overview

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The CSP dashboard provides a snapshot of the historical spending and services consumed by all CSP Customers.

  1. Log in to your HCP portal account.

  2. Navigate to Cloud Admin > Click Administration > CSP Management to load the CSP Dashboard.

  3. Select the Account ID from the drop-down menu.

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    You'll be able to view your CSP dashboard, as illustrated in the image above.