Creating an Alarm Rule for Event Monitoring

Scenarios

This section describes how to create an alarm rule to monitor an event.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page. Under Management & Governance, click Cloud Eye.
3. On the displayed page, in the navigation pane on the left, choose Event Monitoring.
4. On the event list page, click Create Alarm Rule in the upper right corner.
5. On the Create Alarm Rule page, configure required parameters.

   Table 1 Parameter description

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Name of the policy. The system generates a random name and you can modify it.
   Description	(Optional) Supplementary information about the alarm rule.
   Alarm Type	Select Event.
   Event Type	Event type, which can be System event or Custom event.
   Event Source	System event: Cloud service the event is generated for. Select Data Admin Service DAS. Custom event: The event source must be the same as that of the reported fields and written in the service.item format.
   Monitoring Scope	Select All resources
   Method	The default value is Configure manually.
   Alarm Policy	Event Name indicates the instantaneous operations users performed on system resources, such as login and logout. For details, see Events Supported by Event Monitoring. Specify Alarm Policy and Alarm Severity as required.

   Table 2 Alarm notification parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Alarm Notification	Whether to notify users when alarms are triggered. Notifications can be sent by email, text message, or HTTP/HTTPS message.
   Notification Recipient	You can select a notification group or topic subscription as required.
   Notification Group	Notification group the alarm notification is to be sent to. section .
   Notification Object	Object that receives alarm notifications. You can select the account contact or a topic. Account contact is the mobile phone number and email address of the registered account. 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 TopicCreating a Topic and Adding Subscriptions.
   Notification Window	Cloud Eye sends notifications only within the validity period specified in the alarm rule. If Notification Window is set to 08:00-20:00, Cloud Eye sends notifications only within 08:00-20:00.
   Trigger Condition	Condition for triggering an alarm notification.

   Table 3 Advanced Settings

   Parameter	Description
   Enterprise Project	Enterprise project that the alarm rule belongs to. Only users with the enterprise project permissions can view and manage the alarm rule.
   Tag	A tag is a key-value pair. Tags identify cloud resources so that you can easily categorize and search for your resources. You are advised to create predefined tags on TMS. A key can contain a maximum of 128 characters, and a value can contain a maximum of 225 characters. A maximum of 20 tags can be added.

6. After the configuration is complete, click Create.