Billing auto add

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Hi all,

did anyone manage to properly enable billing auto add? What I’m trying to achieve is to create bill for every customer port that is properly descriped including speed.
For example, I have port with description: Cust: Customer1 [100Mbps] {12345678} (Customer physical Address)

If I understand correctly, after setting in config.php:
$config[‘enable_billing’] = 1;
$config[‘billing’][‘customer_autoadd’] = 1;
$config[‘billing’][‘bill_autoadd’] = 1;

bills should be created for every customer using speed and notes part of port description. Or did I understand this wrong?

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That would be cool if it works, where did you find that information?

I can’t find anything in the code except in defaults.php for that.

I think its left-over config options from the original fork.

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Hi Chas,

defaults file was place where I found that info. I hope that isn’t leftover, although until we have this case resolved, I think I’ll write my own script to add bills for every customer port

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Any luck with this? I’m looking to do the same but did not know there was a bill “auto add” feature as I do not see it in the documentation or the WebUI. I thought the only way to do it was manually through the API.

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Hi, I ended up creating my own script that create bills based on Customers port type and data

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Can you share your script or do a description? :slight_smile:

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hi, I suppose my script won’t be of much help for you as it’s highly customized for my organization needs, but I can give you a brief description how it works :wink:

  1. connect to librenms database
  2. check for customer parsed ports (this is in my case most important step as thanks to LibreNMS I standardized interface descriptions allowing me to get rid of much hassle writing proper code in script)
  3. check billing table if we have already proper pairs: customer name = bill name, customer bandwidth = bill cdr (95th percentile in my case), customer circuit ID = billing reference, customer address = billing notes
  4. if there is any difference regarding point 3, I can either create new bill, modify or delete existing one, depending on my needs (for example I want to save bill history when only CDR changes)

Summarizing, what I achieved is complete automatic billing including changing and deleting outdated :wink:

ps. when script see that there is bill with note having word “custom” inside, it leaves it as is. I may want to add something on my own to billing system.

If you need any more info, don’t hesistate to ask

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Even though the script is heavily customised it would help greatly with getting started with the automatic billing and incorporate that with LibreNMS as a new function. Is there any possibility that we can get the script that you have made?

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I have created a script that only relies on LibreNMS API, you have to change some settings before using it. You can find it here https://github.com/mp4lm/billing_librenms