Creating an Alarm Action Rule

Updated on 2025-02-12 GMT+08:00

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LTS allows you to customize alarm action rules. You can create an alarm action rule to associate an SMN topic with a message template. You can also customize notification content when creating a message template.

This function is available only in regions AF-Johannesburg, AP-Singapore, CN-Hong Kong, CN East-Shanghai1, LA-Mexico City1, LA-Mexico City2, LA-Santiago, and LA-Sao Paulo1.

Prerequisites

A topic has been created.
A topic policy has been configured.
A subscriber has been added to the topic. A subscriber is the recipient of the notification, for example, an email or SMS message receiver.

Precaution

You can create a maximum of 1,000 alarm action rules. If this number has been reached, delete unnecessary rules.

Creating an Alarm Action Rule

Log in to the management console and choose Management & Deployment > Log Tank Service.
Choose Log Alarms in the navigation pane.
Click the Alarm Action Rules tab.

Click Create. Set parameters such as the action rule name and action rule configuration.

**Table 1** Parameters for configuring an alarm action rule
Parameter	Description
Action Rule	Enter 1 to 64 characters. Only digits, letters, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) are allowed. Do not start or end with an underscore or hyphen.
Enterprise Project	Select an enterprise project. This parameter is displayed only when the enterprise project function is enabled for the current account.
Description	Enter a description for the rule. Up to 1,024 characters are allowed.
Topic	SMN topic. Select your desired topic from the drop-down list. If there is no topic you want to select, create one on the SMN console.
Message Template	Notification message template. Select your desired template from the drop-down list. If no proper message template is available, click Create Template to create one.

Click OK.

More Operations

After an alarm action rule is created, you can perform operations described in Table 2.

**Table 2** Related operations
Operation	Description
Modifying an alarm action rule	Click Modify in the Operation column.
Exporting an alarm action rule	Select one or more alarm action rules and click Export. If no alarm action rule is selected, clicking Export will export all alarm action rules.
Deleting an alarm action rule	To delete a single rule, click Delete in the Operation column in the row that contains the rule, and then click Yes on the displayed page. To delete one or more rules, select them, click Delete above the rule list, and then click Yes on the displayed page. NOTE: Before deleting an alarm action rule, you need to delete the alarm rule bound to the action rule.
Searching for an alarm action rule	Enter a rule name in the search box in the upper right corner and click .