Creating an Alarm Rule for an iMetal Server

Scenarios

You can set alarm rules for iMetal servers to customize the monitored objects and notification policies. Then, you can monitor your iMetal servers more carefully and get notifications in case of any failure.

An alarm rule includes the alarm rule name, monitored object, metric, threshold, monitoring interval, and whether to send notifications.

This section describes how to create an alarm rule for an iMetal server.

Prerequisites

To set alarm rules, you must be granted the CES FullAccess permissions. If a message appears indicating that you have insufficient permissions, contact the administrator to obtain permissions. For details, see Permissions.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Under Management & Governance, choose Cloud Eye.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Alarm Management > Alarm Rules.
4. On the displayed Alarm Rules page, click Create Alarm Rule.
5. On the Create Alarm Rule page, configure parameters as needed.

   The key parameters are as follows. For details, see Creating an Alarm Rule.

   • Name: Enter a name for the alarm rule. If you do not enter a name, the system generates a random one and you can modify it.
   • Alarm Type: Select Metric.
   • Resource Type: Select CloudDC.iMetal.
   • Dimension: Select device,host.

     Table 1 Dimension values

     Dimension	Description
     device,host	If this dimension is selected, you can specify a server component (such as the processor, memory, power supply, network interfaces, fans, or storage) as the monitored object.
     host	If this dimension is selected, you can specify a server as the monitored object.
     label	If this dimension is selected, you can specify a specific type of resources as the monitored object by label.
     rack	If this dimension is selected, you can specify a rack as the monitored object.

     

     Currently, an iMetal server supports the following dimensions: device,host, host, label, and rack. You can select a dimension based on the object to be monitored.

   • Monitoring Scope: Select Specific resources.
   • Instance: Click Select Specific Resources and select the resources to be monitored.
     Figure 1 Selecting specific resources
     
     

     The specified resources displayed in Figure 1 vary according to the dimension. The following uses the device,host dimension as an example.

     The content in the red box in Figure 1 is the ID of the iMetal server. You can search for and select the resources of a specified iMetal service by ID for monitoring.

   • Method: Select Configure manually.
   • Alarm Policy: Specifies the policy for triggering an alarm. For details, see Alarm Policies.
6. Set alarm notification parameters.

   To send alarm notifications by email, SMS, HTTP, or HTTPS, enable Alarm Notifications.

   For details about the related parameters, see Creating an Alarm Rule.

7. Click Create.
   

   For more information about iMetal server alarm rules, see Cloud Eye User Guide .