
Overview
The article instructs to configure alarm creation to warn administrators when there is a problem with 1 machine in the system
The article guides to create a warning for the event that 1 machine exceeds the allowed CPU
How to configure
- Login to vCenter by Administrator account
- Go to Hosts and Clusters

- Right click to the virtual machine that you want to create alarm -> Choose Alarm -> Choose New Alarm Definition

- Enter name for Alarm
- In Target type: Choose Virtual Machine
- Click Next

- Here I set the condition that CPU usage exceeds 50% within 30 seconds, then a warning will be displayed
- Click Next

- In Reset Rule: Choose Normal
- Click Next

- Choose Enable this alarm
- Click Create

- Here I try to use the machine to exceed 50% CPU to check the result

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