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As you may have noticed when creating the previous example alarm, alarms have two
coni gurable states: Warning, and Critical. When coni guring alarm triggers, you can set the
level for both warning and critical conditions, anything below these conditions is considered
“Normal”. The transition between these conditions then “triggers” a set of “actions” that are
coni gured on the Actions screen. You can set actions for both transition directions at both criti-
cality levels:
Normal
Warning
Warning
Critical
Critical
Warning
Warning → Normal
Figure 13.4
h e Defi ned In
column shows
where an alarm was
defi ned.
The Repeat Actions Every parameter controls the period of time during which a triggered
alarm is not reported again. Using the built-in VM CPU usage alarm as our example, the
Frequency parameter is set, by default, to 5 minutes. This means that a VM whose CPU usage
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