Creating an Alarm Rule to Monitor an Event

Scenarios

This section describes how to create an alarm rule to monitor an event.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page. Under Management & Governance, click Cloud Eye.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Event Monitoring.
4. On the event list page, click Create Alarm Rule in the upper right corner.
5. On the Create Alarm Rule page, configure the parameters.

   Table 1 Parameter description

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Specifies the alarm rule name. The system generates a random name, which you can modify.
   Description	(Optional) Provides supplementary information about the alarm rule.
   Alarm Type	Specifies the alarm type corresponding to the alarm rule.
   Event Type	Specifies the event type of the metric corresponding to the alarm rule.
   Event Source	Specifies the service the event is generated for. Select Relational Database Service.
   Method	Associate template: After an associated template is modified, the policies contained in this alarm rule to be created will be modified accordingly. You are advised to use an existing template. The existing template already contains three common alarm metrics: CPU usage, memory usage, and storage space usage. Configure manually: Configure alarm policies as needed.
   Template	If you select Associate template for Method, select a template. You can select a default alarm template or create a custom template.

   Click to enable alarm notification. The validity period is 24 hours by default. If the topics you require are not displayed in the drop-down list, click Create an SMN topic.

   Table 2 Alarm notification

   Parameter	Description
   Alarm Notification	Specifies whether to notify users when alarms are triggered. Notifications can be sent by email, text message, or HTTP/HTTPS message.
   Recipient	Specifies the object that receives alarm notifications. You can select the account contact or a topic. Account contact is the mobile phone number and email address of the registered account. Topic is used to publish messages and subscribe to notifications. If the required topic is unavailable, create one first and add subscriptions to it.
   Notification Window	Cloud Eye sends notifications only within the notification window specified in the alarm rule. If Notification Window is set to 08:00-20:00, Cloud Eye sends notifications only within 08:00-20:00.
   Trigger Condition	Specifies the condition for triggering the alarm notification.

6. Click Create.