Control View

The platform's Alerts feature enables you to track and act upon changes in your cloud environment. To configure Alerts do these steps:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → Virtual Appliances → Virtual machines. 
2. Create and configure your VMs. See Manage Virtual Machines
   1. Remember to go to Monitoring and fetch metrics. See VM monitoring and metrics. 
      • You can also create custom metrics using the API. See Custom Metrics Resources. 
3. Go to Virtual Appliances → Monitoring and check that the platform is retrieving metrics. You may have to wait a few minutes

4. Create alarms for built-in metrics, scaling group metrics, and custom metrics as required

   1. To create alarms, go to Virtual datacenters → select virtual datacenter → Alarms (see Manage cloud alarms) or Infrastructure → select datacenter → Alarms (see Infrastructure Alarms).

   2. Select an entity, a metric, and a metric statistic and enter a threshold

   3. Save the alarm
      
      

5. Create alerts to notify users

   An alert will trigger when all its alarms are activated. You can use the alert to trigger actions. See Manage Action Plans.

   Privilege: Access alerts section, Manage alerts

   Before you begin:

   1. Retrieve VM built-in metrics, by editing VMs and enabling monitoring (see VM monitoring and metrics) or create custom metrics
   2. Create one or more metric alarms (see Manage cloud alarms and Infrastructure Alarms). You cannot save an alert without an alarm

   To create an alert:

   1. Go to Control → Alerts
   2. Click the + add button

   3. Enter the alert details and assign alarms as described below

   4. Click Save

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   For more details see GUI Create alert General information

   
   

   

   Click the + add button to assign alarms to the alert.

   You must assign at least one alarm to be able to save the alert. Select an existing alarm, or create a new alarm, and assign it to the alert. Repeat for the required alarms

   You can filter the Alarms list by Metric and also if the alarm is Active or not. 

   

   
   

Cloud bursting is automatically deploying new resources in any part of your hybrid cloud environment to meet a peak in demand for resources. To prepare cloud bursting, create an application with metrics and create a matching application in another provider with an action plan that will scale when triggered by VM metrics or on schedule.

To configure cloud bursting do these steps:

1. Create your application: deploy VMs with monitoring of critical values
2. Create a matching appliance in another cloud. Deploy VMs with replication and use minimal hardware profiles

3. Create alarms for your critical values ofVM metrics, scaling group metrics, or custom metrics (see Custom Metrics Resources)

   1. Go to Virtual datacenters → Alarms (see Manage cloud alarms)

   2. Select an Entity (your VM or scaling group), a Metric, and a Metric statistic and enter a Threshold, then save the alarm

   We recommend that you create alarms for when you will require more resources (the high threshold), and for when these resources can be retired (the low threshold).
4. Create alerts to notify users and to trigger scaling
   1. Go to Control → Alerts (see Manage Alerts)
5. Create action plans for automation
   1. Go to Control → Action plans (see Manage Action Plans) 
   2. Select a VM or scaling group
   3. Create Actions, for example, increase the hardware profile of a VM, or use scaling actions to add more VMs for your application.
   4. Add an Alert to trigger the action plan or create a Schedule to run it. If you use a schedule, the alarms and alerts are optional but recommended because they can help you control your cloud resources.