Create an alarmYou can create alarms for built-in VM metrics or scaling group metrics, as well as custom metrics created using the API for VMs, scaling groups, virtual appliances, and virtual datacenters. | Panel |
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Privilege: Access alarms section, Manage alarms |
Before you begin: - Configure the metrics you will use in the alarm. See VM monitoring and metrics and Custom Metrics Resources.
To create an alarm: - Go to Virtual datacenter → Alarms
- Select virtual datacenter, virtual appliance, scaling group, or VM
- Click the Add + button in the top right hand corner
- Enter the alarm details as described below
- Click Save
The platform will create the alarm for the metric. If you would like the platform to notify you when an alarm is triggered, create an Alert. | Include Page |
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| GUI Create alarm |
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For a scaling group, an alarm on a metric of the VM in the base workload will receive input from the metrics of all VMs in the scaling group. This means the base workload and/or the clone VMs. So an alarm for a scaling group can activate, even if the base workload is not deployed. |
Create alarms with the APIFor API documentation about alarms on an entity, see the API documentation for the entity's resource. For example, for VMs, see VirtualMachinesResource.
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| Edit and delete alarms |
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| Edit and delete alarms |
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