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Creating an Alarm Rule by Using an Alarm Template

Cloud Eye allows you to use alarm templates to create alarm rules, making it easy and convenient to add or modify alarm rules for resources or cloud services, especially for a large number of resources and cloud services.

This topic describes how to use a default alarm template to create an alarm rule for a cloud service resource.

Creating an Alarm Rule

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click Service List in the upper left corner, and select Cloud Eye.
  3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Rules.
  4. Click Create Alarm Rule in the upper right corner.
  5. On the Create Alarm Rule page, configure the parameters.
    1. Select an object and configure other parameters listed in Table 1. Click Next.

      You can search for ECSs by name, ID, and IP address. For other cloud services, you can search only by ID.

      Table 1 Parameters

      Parameter

      Description

      Name

      Specifies the alarm rule name. The system generates a random name, which you can modify.

      Example value: alarm-b6al

      Description

      (Optional) Provides supplementary information about the alarm rule.

      Resource Type

      Specifies the type of the resource the alarm rule is created for.

      Example value: Elastic Cloud Server

      Dimension

      Specifies the metric dimension of the selected resource type.

      Example value: ECSs

      Monitoring Scope

      Specifies the monitoring scope the alarm rule applies to. You can select Resource groups or Specific resources.

      NOTE:
      • If Resource groups is selected, an alarm is triggered when any resource in the group meets the alarm policy.
      • If Resource groups is selected, alarm rules cannot be created using templates.

      Select Group

      This parameter is mandatory when Monitoring Scope is set to Resource groups.
    2. If you select Use template for Method, you also need to specify the parameters listed in Table 2.
      Table 2 Parameters

      Parameter

      Description

      Method

      Specifies the means you use to create the alarm rule.

      Template

      Specifies the template to be used.

      Alarm Notification

      Specifies whether to notify users when alarms are triggered. Notifications can be sent by email or HTTP/HTTPS message.

      Notification Object
      Specifies the object to which alarm notifications will be sent. You can select the account contact or a topic.
      • Account contact is the mobile number and email address of the registered account.
      • Topic: A topic is used to publish messages and subscribe to notifications. If the required topic is unavailable, create one first and add subscriptions to it. For details, see Creating a Topic and Adding Subscriptions.

      Validity Period

      Cloud Eye sends notifications only within the validity period specified in the alarm rule.

      If Validity Period is set to 08:00-20:00, Cloud Eye sends notifications only within 08:00-20:00.

      Trigger Condition

      You can select Generated alarm (when an alarm is generated), Cleared alarm (when an alarm is cleared), or both.

After the alarm rule is created, if the metric data reaches the specified threshold, Cloud Eye immediately informs you that an exception has occurred.

Parent topic: Creating Alarm Rules