Setup

Pre-requisites

• HCP running at least version 5.0 (tested up to version 9.1)

• A system-level admin account having at least the Monitor role

• MAPI enabled at system-level and within each Tenant for which chargeback reports are to be collected

• If the chargeback reports are to be archived to an HCP Namespace: a data access user having at least write access to that Namespace

Dependencies

You need to have at least Python 3.4 installed to run hcpcbc.

It depends on the hcpsdk to access HCP and XlsxWriter for chart generation.

Tip

It’s suggested to use a virtual environment to fence the dependency from your primary Python environment.

Installation

Make sure you have Python 3.4 (or better) installed

In case it’s not installed, get it here.

There are two ways to install hcpcbc:

1. system-wide

   • Install hcpcbc by running:

     $ pip install hcpcbc
     

   -or-

   • Get the source from gitlab.com either

     • by downloading the source archive, or

     • by cloning the repository:

       $ git clone https://gitlab.com/simont3/hcpcbc
       

   • Install locally, including the dependency:

     $ python setup.py install
     

2. in a virtual environment

WINDOWS

• Create a fresh virtual environment:

  C:\>\Python35\Tools\scripts\pyvenv.py c:\temp\_venv_hcpcbc
  

• Activate the virtual environment:

  C:\>cd temp
  
  C:\temp>\temp\_venv_hcpcbc\Scripts\activate.bat
  (_venv_hcpcbc) C:\temp>
  

• Install hcpcbc:

  (_venv_hcpcbc) C:\Temp>pip install hcpcbc
  Collecting hcpcbc
    Downloading hcpcbc-2.1.0.tar.gz
  Collecting hcpsdk>=0.9.4.post0 (from hcpcbc==2.1.0)
    Downloading hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz
  Collecting XlsxWriter>=0.7.7 (from hcpcbc==2.1.0)
    Downloading XlsxWriter-0.7.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133kB)
  Collecting dnspython3==1.12.0 (from hcpsdk>=0.9.4.post0->hcpcbc)
    Downloading dnspython3-1.12.0.zip (226kB)
  Installing collected packages: dnspython3, hcpsdk, hcpcbc
    Running setup.py install for dnspython3
    Running setup.py install for hcpsdk
    Running setup.py install for hcpcbc
  Successfully installed XlsxWriter-0.7.8 dnspython3-1.12.0 \
                         hcpcbc-2.1.0 hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1
  

Now you can run hcpcbc as long as you have the virtual environment activated:

(_venv_hcpcbc) C:\temp>hcpcbc
A configuration file is not available.
Do you want me to create a template for you (y/n)? y
Creation of template config file "hcpcbc_config.ini" was successfull
    You need to edit it to fit your needs!

Linux

• Create a fresh virtual environment:

  $ pyvenv _venv_hcpcbc
  

• Activate the virtual environment:

  $ source _venv_hcpcbc/bin/activate
  

• Install hcpcbc:

  (_venv_hcpcbc) $ pip install hcpcbc
  Collecting hcpcbc
    Downloading hcpcbc-2.1.0.tar.gz
  Collecting hcpsdk>=0.9.4.post0 (from hcpcbc==2.1.0)
    Downloading hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz
  Collecting XlsxWriter>=0.7.7 (from hcpcbc==2.1.0)
    Downloading XlsxWriter-0.7.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133kB)
  Collecting dnspython3==1.12.0 (from hcpsdk>=0.9.4.post0->hcpcbc)
    Downloading dnspython3-1.12.0.zip (226kB)
  Installing collected packages: dnspython3, hcpsdk, hcpcbc
    Running setup.py install for dnspython3
    Running setup.py install for hcpsdk
    Running setup.py install for hcpcbc
  Successfully installed XlsxWriter-0.7.8 dnspython3-1.12.0 \
                         hcpcbc-2.1.0 hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1
  

Now you can run hcpcbc as long as you have the virtual environment activated:

(_venv_hcpcbc) $ hcpcbc
A configuration file is not available.
Do you want me to create a template for you (y/n)? y
Creation of template config file "hcpcbc_config.json" was successfull
        You need to edit it to fit your needs!