Manage scaling groups advanced

Display scaling actions for a scaling group

To display scaling actions of a scaling group:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → Virtual appliances → open virtual appliance

2. If the scaling group is not in maintenance mode, click the cog maintenance symbol 

3. Edit the scaling group and go to Autoscaling actions

4. To show or hide more details of a scaling action, click Show more or Show less

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You can also display all the elements created for the automatic scaling action in the relevant sections of the UI, such as the Alarms tab, and the Control view. 

Display metrics for a scaling group

Abiquo can display custom metrics for your scaling groups and built-in metrics for the VMs in the scaling group.

Scaling groups also have built-in metrics that are a composite of the VM metrics, and which have the same names as the VM metrics. The Abiquo UI does not display the built-in scaling group metrics but you can access them through the Abiquo API. 

To display metrics for a scaling group:

1. On the Scaling group icon, click the Monitoring symbol in the top right-hand corner

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   OR Open a Scaling group and click the Monitoring symbol 

2. Select the Scaling group or Virtual machines page

You can configure the display of metrics at this level.

• To filter metric statistics, click on the Filter button and select the granularity, statistic, time frame, and dimension, as required.

Screenshot: Scaling group view with Monitoring symbol

Screenshot: Scaling group metrics popup - Virtual machine metrics page

Screenshot: Scaling group metrics popup - Scaling group metrics page

Add tags to a scaling group

To manage tags for a scaling group: 

1. Go to Virtual appliances → Virtual machines

2. Select a scaling group and put it into maintenance mode

3. Open and edit the scaling group and go to Tags

4. Add tags 

   For entities that exist in the platform only, such as virtual appliances and scaling groups, the user can create tags in the platform only.

   To add a tag, enter the Key and Value, then click Add. 

   To edit a tag field, click the pencil edit button 

   To delete a tag, select the tag, then click the trash bin delete button.

   To save your changes, click Save.

Move a scaling group to another virtual appliance in the same virtual datacenter

To move a scaling group to another virtual appliance in the same virtual datacenter:

1. Put the scaling group in maintenance mode

2. Click the Move button

3. Select the new virtual appliance

Restrict a scaling group

To move a scaling group to a restricted virtual appliance, do these steps:

1. Click the cog or wrench maintenance symbol to put the scaling group into maintenance mode

2. Click the cross arrows move button

3. Select the checkbox to Move to a restricted virtual appliance, or 
   Select a restricted virtual appliance, or 
   Create a new VApp and select the Restrict virtual appliance checkbox

Manage scaling groups with the API