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The Control tab enables Users to detect and automatically meet changing demands for resources on the platform. The foundation foundations of the control system is the metricare metrics, which can be a built-in metric standard metrics from a provider or hypervisor, or a custom metric 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.
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