Creating an Alarm Rule to Monitor a Server¶
Scenarios¶
This topic describes how to create an alarm rule for an ECS or BMS.
Procedure¶
Log in to the management console.
In the upper left corner, select a region and project.
Click Service List in the upper left corner and select Cloud Eye.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose Server Monitoring.
Locate the target ECS or BMS, and click Create Alarm Rule in the Operation column. When you create an alarm rule, related metric parameters will be preset.
On the Create Alarm Rule page, configure the parameters.
For details about the parameters, see Table 1 to Table 4.
Some parameters have been preset. For details, see Table 1.
Table 1 Preset parameters for server monitoring alarms¶ Parameter
Description
Alarm Type
Alarm type that the alarm rule applies to. The default value is Metric.
Resource Type
Specifies the name of the monitored service.
Dimension
Specifies the metric dimension.
Monitoring Scope
Specifies the monitoring scope the alarm rule applies to.
Monitored Object
Specifies the monitored object, that is, the name of the selected resource.
After the alarm rule is created, if the metric data reaches the specified threshold, Cloud Eye immediately informs you that an exception has occurred.