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Contents 1 What Billing is and is not 2 Enabling Billing 2.1 config.php 2.2 Scheduling Poller 3 Configure a Bill

What Billing is and is not

It is billing. It is not a giant ostrich. (fixme!)

Enabling Billing

config.php

Enable the billing code in your config.php by adding the following line:

$config['enable_billing']               = 1; 

Scheduling Poller

Add the following line to your crontab to enable the separate billing poller. Please note that this poller currently doesn't allow multiple instances.

The status of each bill is generated periodically by another script, which you can run at different intervals.

*/5 *   * * *   observium    /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
23 *    * * *   observium    /opt/observium/billing-calculate.php >> /dev/null 2>&1

If you don't run your poller as observium, change the user. Similarly change the path if you didn't install to /opt/observium.

Configure a Bill

You can now go to the "Ports" menu on your Observium installation and click the new "Billing" option. This will take you to a page where you can view existing bills and add new ones.