Creating, Modifying, or Deleting a Notification Policy

Constraints

• You can add a maximum of 10 notification scopes to a notification policy.
• Notification policies are available only in some regions. This feature will be available in other regions later. For details, check the console.

Creating a Notification Policy

1. Log in to the Cloud Eye console.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Notifications.
3. On the Notification Policies tab, click Create Notification Policy and configure parameters.
   Figure 1 Creating a notification policy
   

   Table 1 Parameters for creating a notification policy

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   Language	Language of the alarm notification. The options are Chinese and English.	Chinese
   Name	Name of the notification policy. The value can contain a maximum of 255 characters.	notification_policy
   Recipients	Object that needs to receive alarm notifications. You can select Contact groups, Account contact, or Topic subscriptions. Account contact: Alarm notifications are sent to the mobile number and email address specified during account registration. You do not need to create contact groups or topics. Contact groups: To send alarm notifications to a group of contacts, you can create a contact group and add contacts to it in Cloud Eye for easier management. For details, see Creating a Contact/Contact Group. Topic subscriptions: If you have configured recipients in SMN, select this option and select the desired topic. Cloud Eye allows you to select topics across regions. NOTE: You can select SMN topics created only in CN North-Beijing4, CN East-Shanghai1, CN East-Shanghai2, CN South-Guangzhou, and CN-Hong Kong regions. Create a topic in one of these regions if needed. Currently, you can select cloud account contacts only in some regions. This function will be available in other regions soon. For details, see the console.	-
   Alarm Severity	Alarm severity, which can be Critical, Major, Minor, or Warning.	Critical
   Notification Cause	Scenario for triggering an alarm notification. You can select Alarm triggered, Alarm cleared, or both.	Alarm triggered
   Days	On which days alarm notifications will be sent. You can select Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Multiple options are supported.	Monday
   Time	Time window during which alarm notifications will be sent. If you set this parameter to 08:00 to 20:00, Cloud Eye only sends notifications within this period.	08:00-20:00
   Time Zone	Time zone for the alarm notification window. By default, it matches the time zone of the client browser, but can be manually configured.	(GMT+08:00) Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Perth, Taipei, Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar
   Channels	Way for receiving alarm notifications. This parameter is required when Recipients is set to Contact groups. You can select SMS, Email, WeLink, DingTalk, WeCom, Lark, or HTTP/HTTPS. Multiple options can be selected.	Email
   Add Scope	Click Add Scope to add a notification scope for the notification policy.	-
   Notification Templates	Notification content format. The value can be Default or Custom. If you select Custom, you can select Templates for Metric Monitoring or Templates for Event Monitoring, or click Create Notification Template to create a new one. NOTE: Some cloud services do not support fields such as the resource name, enterprise project, resource tag, private IP address, and public IP address in the notification template. If these fields are configured, no values will be displayed for them when alarm notifications are sent.	Default

4. Click OK.

Modifying a Notification Policy

1. Log in to the Cloud Eye console.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Notifications.
3. On the Notification Policies tab, locate the notification policy and click Modify in the Operation column.
4. Access the Modify Notification Policy page.

   On the Overview page, modify the parameters.

   On the Associated Alarm Rules page, select one or more alarm rules to be disassociated and click Disassociate.

   Figure 2 Modifying a notification policy
   
5. Click OK.
   

   After you modify the notification policy, an asynchronous task needs to be delivered. The change will apply within 5 minutes.

Deleting a Notification Policy

1. Log in to the Cloud Eye console.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Notifications.
3. On the Notification Policies tab,
   • To delete a notification policy, locate the policy and click Delete in the Operation column.
   • To batch delete notification policies, select them and click Delete above the list.
     Figure 3 Deleting a notification policy
     

4. Click OK.