Creating an Alarm Rule for Event Monitoring

Scenarios

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

Procedure

Log in to the DDM console.
Click in the upper left corner of the page, choose Management & Governance > Cloud Eye.
On the displayed page, in the navigation pane on the left, choose Event Monitoring.
On the event list page, click Create Alarm Rule in the upper right corner.

On the Create Alarm Rule page, configure required parameters.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Description
Name	Specifies the name of the policy. The system generates a random name and you can modify it.
Description	(Optional) Provides supplementary information about the alarm rule.
Alarm Type	Select Event.
Event Type	Specifies the event type, which can be System event or Custom event.
Event Source	System event: Specifies the cloud service the event is generated for. Select Distributed Database Middleware. Custom event: The event source must be the same as that of the reported fields and written in the service.item format.
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.

Click

to enable alarm notification. The validity period is 24 hours by default. If the topics you require are not displayed in the drop-down list, click Create an SMN topic.

**Table 2** Alarm notification parameters
Parameter	Description
Alarm Notification	Specifies whether to send email, SMS, HTTP, or HTTPS notifications to users when an alarm is triggered. (You will be billed for the notifications. For details, see Product Pricing Details.)
Notification Recipient	You can select a notification group or topic subscription as required.
Notification Group	Specifies the notification group that needs to send alarm notifications. .
Notification Object	Specifies the 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 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	Specifies the condition for triggering an alarm notification.