GUI Create action plan

General information

Field	Description
Name	The name of the action plan
Description	A description of the action plan

Actions

Field	Description
Type	Select a general action or select a VM or scaling group
Target	Select an entity
Action	See Actions table

Put the actions in run order using the arrow buttons. Delete actions as required using the trash can button to the left of the action name.

Action plan Actions table

Action	Notes and Parameters
Virtual machine
Increase CPU	vCPUs
Decrease CPU	vCPUs. Not supported by hot-reconfigure. Check OS compatibility
Increase RAM	RAM RAM unit of GB or MB
Decrease RAM	RAM. Not supported by hot-reconfigure. Check OS compatibility RAM unit of GB or MB
Increase hardware profile	Use the same family and type
Decrease hardware profile	Use the same family and type
Resize disk	Amount Disk unit of GB or MB Selected disk
Instance	Name for Instance (clone) template. The platform will append the date to the name supplied All disks or selected disks
Set hardware profile	Select from the available hardware profiles
General
Send email	Subject Body To (email addresses) Cc (copy to these addresses) Enter email addresses as a comma separated list
Send webhook	See webhook parameters table
Scaling group
Start maintenance
End maintenance
Scale in
Scale out

Webhook action attributes table

Attribute	Description	Required	Default value
Endpoint	Where to submit the request	true
HTTP Method	The type of request can be GET, POST, or PUT	false	GET
Expected HTTP status code	If this status code is returned, continue running the action plan	false	204 No Content
Request headers	Headers such as, secret, authentication, and content-type	false
Request content	Request body	false

When you create actions on VMs also consider the following constraints.

User constraints: e.g. allocation limits
Platform constraints: e.g. to create an instance, the VM must be deployed and powered off
Hypervisor constraints: e.g. when using hot reconfigure on ESXi, you cannot decrement CPU or RAM

For the API, note that you can request the JSON schema for each action plan entry type from the API.
See: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/ActionPlansResource.html#list-action-plan-entry-templates