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Action plans are an important automation functionality on the platform. They can combine tasks for VMs in different providers and have multiple triggers including alerts from custom metrics or built-in metrics. Each VM or scaling group can have multiple action plans.
Create an action plan
Before you create an action plan, you will probably want to create at least one VM.
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To run the action plan automatically, go to the Triggers tab and create an alert or schedule trigger.
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Run an action plan now
When you have added some actions and saved the action plan, you can run the action plan immediately to test it. Edit the action plan and click the Execute action plan button, which is beside the + add button to create a new action.
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Abiquo recommends that you run an action plan manually to test it before you create a trigger to run it automatically.
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Create a trigger
The platform supports two types of triggers to run action plans: Alerts and Schedules.
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Delete an action plan
If you delete an action plan, Abiquo will also delete the schedule associated with that action plan.
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Scale out VMs
As an automatic response to changing demands for resources, the platform can scale out by cloning a master VM. And it can scale in, by deleting clone machines and undeploying the master VM.
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