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# Add a Google Cloud CI class type to ensure accurate billing data

# Add a Google Cloud CI class type to ensure accurate billing
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* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated August 1, 2024
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Specify the details of a new CI or CI type to enable the CI placement process to assign cost and usage data correctly. The process is a part of Billing Download job execution. The CI placement process associates downloaded cost and usage data with the appropriate CIs.


## Before you begin

Role required: Cloud Cost Management Admin \[sn_clin_core.insights_admin\]

## About this task

Important:  
This information applies to both the Cloud Cost Management and Cloud Insights Billing apps. All references to Cloud Cost Management also apply to Cloud Insights Billing.


Billing Download jobs store downloaded billing data in the billing node table. The Class Type table holds CI type definitions for the cost usage
table. Cloud Cost Management executes the CI placement process to associate the billing and usage data with CIs in the CMDB. The CI placement process queries the billing node table using the CI type definitions that reside
in the CI placement type table. For a new CI (or a CI type from a new provider), you specify the parameters that uniquely define the CI, a CI type definition, and a class type table to store the CI type definition.
The CI placement type table for Google Cloud \[sn_cld_intg_gcp_ci_placement_type\] inherits from the Core CI placement type table (sn_cld_intg_core_ci_placement_type).

## Procedure

1. Go to the CI placement type table and select New.  
   Figure 1. Google Cloud class types in the Core CI placement type table \[sn_cld_intg_core_ci_placement_type\]
2. Fill in the form.  
   {#gcp-class-type-add-cloudin__table_vgv_w4k_gtb__entry__2}

   | Field | Description |
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   | Class type | CMDB class type table that this type of CI is stored in. New CIs of this type are added to the table. |
   | Name | Name of the CI type. |
   | Query table | Billing node table that the CI placement process queries to find instances of the CI type. Query table is sn_cld_gcp_cost_usage and cannot be changed. |
   | Query params | Parameter values in the billing node table that uniquely define the CI type. |
   [Table 1. CI Placement Type Information form]

   {#gcp-class-type-add-cloudin__table_vgv_w4k_gtb}
3. After you add a class type, you must reimport billing and usage data to ensure that CIs are correctly placed into the new type.  
   Note:  
   The supported CIs are placed after the Cumulus Unsupported CI Placement scheduled job runs daily. For more information, see [Supported CI class types for Google Cloud services](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/VXQB3l~Dzn_xjWmlRX7EFw "Supported CI class types for Google Cloud enable assigning cost and usage data correctly using the CI placement process. Some CI class types are placed immediately. The CI placement process places a subset of CIs into corresponding CI tables that are used in the recommendation generation process for Cloud Cost Management.").