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Creating Alarm Rules

You can set threshold conditions for metrics by using alarm rules. If metric values meet threshold conditions, AOM will generate threshold alarms. If no metric data is reported, AOM will report insufficient data events. In this way, you can identify and handle exceptions at the earliest time.

For example, during routine O&M, a host may break down or restart due to an excessively-high CPU usage. To avoid the problem, set an alarm rule. For example, when the CPU usage of a host exceeds 85%, an alarm is reported, so that you can quickly obtain the resource running status and take measures to prevent service loss.

Precautions

You can create a maximum of 1000 alarm rules. If the number of alarm rules reaches the upper limit, delete unnecessary rules and create new ones.

Customizing Alarm Rules

  1. In the navigation pane, choose Alarm Center > Alarm Rule and click Add Threshold.
  2. Customize alarm rules.

    1. Select a resource. Specifically, enter a threshold rule name, select a resource type, select the resource to be monitored from the resource tree, and click Next.
      • You can select a maximum of 100 resources from the resource tree.
      • When multiple resources are selected, multiple alarm rules will be created after the creation is complete. Each resource is monitored by an alarm rule. A rule name consists of the alarm rule name you enter in the Threshold name text box, and a sequence number ranging from 0 to 99. The earlier a resource is selected, the smaller its sequence number.
      Figure 1 Selecting resources
    2. Customize a threshold. Specifically, select the metric to be monitored, and set parameters such as Threshold Condition, Consecutive Period (s), Alarm Severity, and Statistic Method.
      • Threshold Condition: Trigger condition of a threshold alarm. A threshold condition consists of two parts: determination condition (≥, ≤, >, or <) and threshold value. For example, if Threshold Condition is set to > 85 and an actual metric value exceeds 85, a threshold alarm will be generated.
      • Consecutive Period (s): If a metric value meets the threshold condition for a specified number of consecutive periods, a threshold alarm will be generated.
      • Alarm Severity: Critical, Major, Minor, or Warning.
      • Send Notification: Alarm notifications sent by SMN will be billed according to the standard pricing of SMN. If you select Yes, select a topic and trigger condition.
        • Topic: If the topic you want to select does not exist, create one on the SMN console.
        • Trigger Condition: The condition can be Threshold crossing, Normal, or Insufficient data.
      • Statistic Method: Method used to measure metric values.
      • Statistical Cycle: Interval at which metric data is collected.

  3. Click Submit. As shown in the following figure, multiple alarm rules are created. Each resource is monitored by an independent rule.

    For example, when a monitored component uses more than 3 CPU cores, a threshold alarm is generated on the alarm page. You can choose Alarm Center > Alarm Rule in the navigation pane to view the alarm rule.

    Figure 2 Alarm rules

Parent topic: Alarm Management