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You can configure alerts, with their associated alarms, and action plans on the control tab. Before you begin to work with alerts and action plans, you should configure In order to create an alert, you will need to select or create alarms that will activate when VM metric thresholds are surpassed.
In order to configure create alarms that are not associated with alerts, edit your VMs and configure alarms for VM metrics. See VM Alarms.
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