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Creating an alert |
Find out how to set up alerts on your vSphere client |
2020-11-18 |
You can create an alert on all items in your Managed Bare Metal: the datacentre itself, the clusters, the VMs, the datastores, the network ...
This guide explains how to create alerts on your vSphere client.
- a Managed Bare Metal infrastructure
- a user account with access to vSphere (created in the OVHcloud Control Panel)
To create an alert, right-click on the datacentre or any other item you want to monitor, and then click on Alarms{.action} and New Alarm Definition{.action}.
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The first step is to name the alert and set its target. You can also add a description.
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The second step is to define the rules of the alert and the actions it triggers.
The IF field allows you to set an alert trigger from a selection of variables. Depending on the variable chosen, a list of arguments will be offered.
The THEN field allows you to indicate that the alert is triggered with a certain degree of criticality and will result in actions such as sending an email, executing a script or shutting down a VM.
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This allows you to monitor the RAM of a host, for example, by specifying a threshold not to exceed before its status goes on alert and you receive a warning email.
[!primary] You can add several rules to your alert by clicking
ADD ANOTHER RULE{.action}.
The third step allows you to set the end of the alert criteria and trigger new actions.
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The last step shows you a summary of the rules defined. You can activate the alarm by checking the cursor or choose to activate it later by right-clicking the selected item and then clicking Alarms{.action} and Enable Alarm Actions{.action}.
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You can also configure the frequency of repeat alerts in this step.
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