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The Control tab enables Users to detect and automatically meet changing demands for resources on the platform. The foundations of the control system are metrics, which can be standard metrics from a provider or hypervisor, or custom metrics that the user creates and populates with values using the Abiquo API. Administrators can create custom metrics for infrastructure and all users can create custom metrics for virtual resources.
There is an Alarms tab in the Infrastructure view for data centers, racks, physical machines, and VM entities on the Infrastructure path. And there is another Alarms tab in the Virtual datacenters view, for virtual resource entities, including VDCs, VApps, VMs, and scaling groups.
Users can detect changes in metrics using Alarms and Alerts. If you imagine a dashboard for your metrics, alarms are like red lights that light up when conditions change, for example, when there is a problem. Alerts are like a worker monitoring a group of alarms; when all the lights for the group are lit up, the alert is activated.
There is an Alarms tab in the Infrastructure view for data centers, racks, physical machines, and VM entities on the Infrastructure path. And there is another Alarms tab in the Virtual datacenters view, for virtual resource entities, including VDCs, VApps, VMs, and scaling groups.
Screenshot: Create alarm - the platform uses alarms to detect if a metric passes a threshold. Users create alarms for metrics by specifying the conditions with which to evaluate the metric
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Screenshot: Alerts - Users can create Alerts on the control Control tab. An Alert can notify users or trigger an action plan when a group of alarms are triggered, which means that a group of metrics passed certain thresholds.
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