Creating an Alarm Action Rule

LTS allows you to customize alarm action rules. You can create an alarm action rule to associate an SMN topic with a message template. You can also customize notification content when creating a message template.

Prerequisites

A topic has been created according to Creating a Topic.
A topic policy has been set according to Configuring Topic Policies.
A subscriber, that is, an email or SMS message recipient has been added for the topic according to Adding a Subscription.

Precaution

You can create a maximum of 1000 alarm action rules. If this number has been reached, delete unnecessary rules.

Procedure

Log in to the LTS console.
Choose Alarms in the navigation pane. On the displayed page, click the Alarm Action Rules tab.

Click Create. Set parameters such as the action rule name and action rule configuration.

Figure 1 Creating an alarm action rule
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**Table 1** Parameters for configuring an alarm action rule
Parameter	Description
Action Rule	Name of an action rule. Enter 1 to 100 characters, and do not start or end with an underscore (_) or hyphen (-) . Only digits, letters, hyphens, and underscores are allowed.
Enterprise Project	Select an enterprise project. This parameter is displayed only when the enterprise project function is enabled for the current account.
Description	Description of the action rule.
Topic	SMN topic. Select your desired topic from the drop-down list. If there is no topic you want to select, create one on the SMN console.
Message Template	Notification message template. Select your desired template from the drop-down list. If there is no message template you want to select, create one by referring to Message Templates.

Click OK.

More Operations

After an alarm action rule is created, you can perform operations described in Table 2.

**Table 2** Related operations
Operation	Description
Modifying an alarm action rule	Click Modify in the Operation column.
Exporting an alarm action rule	Select one or more alarm action rules and click Export. If no alarm action rule is selected, clicking Export will export all alarm action rules.
Deleting an alarm action rule	To delete a single rule, click Delete in the Operation column in the row that contains the rule, and then click Yes on the displayed page. To delete one or more rules, select them, click Delete above the rule list, and then click Yes on the displayed page. NOTE: Before deleting an alarm action rule, you need to delete the alarm rule bound to the action rule.
Searching for an alarm action rule	Enter a rule name in the search box in the upper right corner and click .