Integration with HostBill

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:

1. Enter Network → IP pools.
2. Press Pool general settings.
3. Select the Pools for deallocation of servers.
4. Select the Pools for deallocation of servers.
   
5. 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.

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.