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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.
Screenshot: Create alarm - the platform uses alarms to detect if a metric passes a threshold. Users create alarms for metrics by specifying the conditions with which to evaluate the metric
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Screenshot: Alerts - Users can create Alerts on the Control tab. An Alert can notify users or trigger an action plan when a group of alarms are triggered, which means that a group of metrics passed certain thresholds.
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Users can also create action plans to define a sequence of actions to perform at a scheduled time. Examples of actions are adding more resources to a VM, deploy, and power actions, as well as adding more VMs to a scaling group, or scaling in to retire VMs.
Screenshot: An action plan
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Users can run action plans automatically based on schedules or alerts.Screenshot: Creating
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The alternative to an Interval schedule for running an action plan. An Advanced schedule is an Advanced schedule, which is a calendar schedule.
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