HostBill is a billing system for selling various types of services. With HostBill, you can sell the following to your customers automatically:
- dedicated servers;
- IP addresses for dedicated servers;
- traffic for dedicated servers.
The billing system performs the following main features:
- registers clients and keeps track of their funds;
- creates tariff plans;
- accepts payments from customers;
- manages services automatically: activates, suspends, renews.
Preparing for integration
Create pools of IP addresses in DCImanager 6, which will be assigned to servers when they are provisioned and released. To do this:
- Enter Network → IP pools.
- Press Pool general settings.
- Select the Pools for deallocation of servers.
- Select the Pools for deallocation of servers.
- Press Save.
You can select a pool from which addresses will be assigned when issuing servers from a particular rack: go to Racks → select rack → menu → Edit → select IP pool → Save.
Note
Only pools with IPv4 addresses can be used to release and provision servers.
Configuring integration
Integration must be configured on the HostBill side. Install the DCI Manager 6 module in HostBill for configuration.
Features of DCI Manager 6 module:
- managing DCImanager 6 users;
- search of available servers;
- provisioning and release of servers;
- managing server ports and IP addresses;
- OS installation.
Read more in the official HostBill documentation.