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The Abiquo monitoring system displays VM metrics and the user can configure alerts to trigger actions if certain conditions are met within virtual appliances. If your virtual datacenter supports monitoring, but you don't see any metrics for your virtual appliance, you may need to edit your VMs and configure monitoring on the VM monitoring tab. See VM monitoring and metrics

 Then  Then you can configure the display of metrics at the virtual appliance level.

 To  To configure the refresh interval, select the Refresh data every checkbox and enter a number of minutes. Then  Then choose the metrics you wish to display and filter by metric statistics.

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The muted alerts have an alert "speaker" symbol without sound waves. The alerts that are not muted have an alert symbol with sound waves.

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Create alerts for VMs

Before you create an alert for the VMs in a virtual appliance, remember to edit the VMs and do the following steps when editing the VMs:

1. Enable VM monitoring (see VM monitoring and metrics)
2. Create Optionally create VM alarms (see VM Alarms)

To create an alert for the VMs in a virtual appliance

1. Open the virtual appliance Control tab
2. Click the + add button
3. From the drop-down list, select Create alert
4. Enter the alert details

5. Assign existing alarms to the alert, or create new alarms and then assign them to the alert.

6. Click Save

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Create an alarm

To create an alarm for any VM in the virtual appliance:

1. At the top of the Alerts panel, click the + add button 
2. Enter the alarm details.
   
   • Abiquo recommends that you enter a name that will uniquely identify the alarm
   • See VM Alarms for details of the Alarm fields, which are the same as on the Alarms tab of the VM
3. To save, click the floppy disk icon. The platform will create the alarm
4. Remember to add your alarm to an alert because the platform will not do it automatically!
5. To manage an alarm that is not in an alert, go to the VM Alarms section, which requires the Access alarms section privilege

Modify or delete an alarm associated with an alert

To modify or delete an alarm associated with an alert:

1. In the virtual appliance, open the Control tab and select the alert
2. In the Alerts list, open the alert to list the alarms. Select the alarm
   
   • To delete an alarm, click the delete button, and confirm
     The platform will delete it from all the alerts that it is associated with
   • To modify the alarm, make your changes, and click Save

To manage an alarm that is not in an alert, go to the VM Alarms section, which requires the Access alarms section privilegeedit or delete alarms that are not attached to alerts, open the VM and modify it on the Alarms tab; see VM Alarms.

Manage scaling groups

Horizontal scaling of VMs enables users to configure an automatic response to changing demands for resources. To scale out, the platform clones the base VM and deploys the clones. To scale in, Abiquo will delete clone machines but it will just undeploy the base machine. Scaling operations are subject to all standard Abiquo constraints, such as privileges and allocation limits.

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