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This document is part of the Abiquo walkthrough and it describes the Control view.
The previous page in the walkthrough is Events and the next page is Virtual appliances and virtual machines

The Control tab enables Users users to detect and automatically meet changing demands for resources on the platform. The foundations of the control system are metrics, which can be standard metrics from a provider or hypervisor, or custom metrics that the user creates and populates with values using the Abiquo API. Administrators can create custom metrics for infrastructure and all users can create custom metrics for virtual resources.

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Define a scaling group

Users may wish to automate the response to resource demands of their applications and increment resources or VMs using action plans and scaling groups.

  1. Create a VM and enable metrics

  2. Create a scaling group for the VM with scaling rules

    1. Enter the Name, Default cooldown and number of VMs

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    2. Create default rules for 1 VM and optionally create more rules

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    2. Click Save

    3. Select the Metric for the autoscaling actions and click Add

  2. If the scaling group is in maintenance mode, disable maintenance mode

When the User defines a scaling group, they can automatically define a scaling action. The platform will automatically create the appropriate alarms, alerts, and action plan with scaling actions.

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