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Adding alarms

You can add an alarm when you want immediate notification that a specified event or event class or event of a specified severity level occurred.

Before you begin

You must be authorized to perform all the steps of this task; your RBAC administrator can confirm your authorization in advance.

Have the following information available to complete this task:

  • The resource group with which you want the alarm associated.
  • The event name, event class, or severity type that triggers the alarm.
  • Who and what you want the event notification sent to.
  • The time period during which the alarm is active.
  • Whether you want the event notification repeated until the event is acknowledged and how often the notification should be repeated.

Steps

  1. For protection, provisioning, or disaster recovery alarms, from the menu bar, click Notifications > Alarms. For Performance Advisor alarms, from the menu bar, click the Set Up Alarms window.
  2. Click Add to start the Add Alarm wizard.
  3. On each page of the wizard, enter the appropriate information.
  4. Click Finish to commit your choices and close the Add Alarm wizard.
  5. Verify the creation and configuration of the alarm by viewing the results that are displayed in the Alarms window.

After you finish

You can edit the alarm properties from the Alarms window.