Creating an Alarm Rule to Monitor a Server

Scenarios

This topic describes how to create an alarm rule for an ECS or BMS.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper left corner, select a region and project.
3. Click Service List in the upper left corner and select Cloud Eye.
4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Server Monitoring.
5. 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.
6. 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.