Setting a Fund Quota for an Enterprise Project

Scenario

You can set a fund quota for the enterprise project to control the use of funds for the enterprise project.

When the funds of an enterprise project are insufficient, you can configure fund quotas to restrict subsequent subscription of yearly/monthly cloud resources and provisioning of pay-per-use cloud resources. However, there is no restriction on existing cloud resources. You can continue to use pay-per-use cloud resources, renew yearly/monthly cloud resources both manually and automatically, change to yearly/monthly subscription, modify resource configuration, and perform other operations on existing cloud resources.

On the page for managing the accounting information of an enterprise project, you can view the fund quota of the enterprise project, enable or disable the fund quota, and enable or disable the quota balance alert.

Fund quotas set for enterprise projects are used only to ensure that funds are appropriately used for enterprise projects. When a user under an enterprise project purchases cloud resources, the fee is deducted from the user's Huawei Cloud account, and the fund quota of the enterprise project is also deducted.

Prerequisites

You have enabled the enterprise project function.

Setting a Fund Quota

1. On the Enterprise Project Management page, click View Expenditures in the Operation column of the row containing the target enterprise project.
2. Log in to the Bills.
3. Click Quota Management on the navigation pane and the Set Quota page will be displayed.
   

   A fund quota cannot be set for the default enterprise project.

4. If the quota setting is disabled, enable it. If it is already enabled, go to 5.
   

   After the fund quota setting is disabled for an enterprise project, the expenditures of this enterprise project will no longer be controlled by the quota.

5. Select a policy to deal with the circumstance in which the fee required to purchase a yearly/monthly subscribed or pay-per-use resource is greater than the quota balance, and set the quota balance.
   The following two policies are available:

   • Allow purchases of provisioning of pay-per-use cloud resources and yearly/monthly cloud resources: When the quota balance of an enterprise project is insufficient, the purchase of yearly/monthly cloud resources and provisioning of pay-per-use cloud resources are allowed.
   • Prohibit purchases of provisioning of pay-per-use cloud resources and yearly/monthly cloud resources: When the quota balance of an enterprise project is insufficient, the purchase of yearly/monthly cloud resources and provisioning of pay-per-use cloud resources are prohibited. As pay-per-use resources are post-paid resources, their usage is not applied to the quota until the following day. This means that even if the quota will be exceeded on the following day, on that day before the usage has been applied, new pay-per use resources can still be subscribed to.

   

6. Click Sure.

   A message is displayed indicating that the operation is successful.

   Figure 1 Setting a fund quota
   
   

   • Click Change next to Current Quota Balance to modify the quota balance.
   • Click Show next to Balance Change History to view historical quota change records.

Enabling the Balance Alert

When the fund quota balance decreases below the threshold, the system sends a text message and an email to notify the message receiver of the insufficiency.

1. Go to the Quota Management page.
2. If balance alert is disabled, enable it. If it is already enabled, go to 3.
   

   After balance alert is disabled, Huawei Cloud will no longer send text messages for alerting an insufficient balance.

3. Set the balance alert threshold.
   • Click Modify next to the Alarm Threshold to change the alarm threshold.
   • Click Message Reception in the Notification to set the recipients.