Creating Notification Rules for Tenant in
VMware Aria Operations

Cloud service providers can add, manage, and edit your notification rules for tenants in
VMware Aria Operations
.
Before you can create and manage your notification rules, you must configure the outbound alert plug-in instances. For details on configuring outbound plug-ins, see Adding Outbound Notification Plug-Ins.
Chargeback
allows you to only add a Standard Email Plug-In for outbound alerts.
  1. To manage your notifications, from the left menu, click
    Configure
    Alerts
    , and then in the right pane, click
    VCD Tenant Notifications
    . On the toolbar, click
    Add
    to add a rule, or click the vertical ellipsis and select
    Edit
    to edit the selected rule.
  2. Enter the following notification details.
    Option
    Description
    Name
    Provide a name for the notification rule.
    Description
    Describe the notification rule.
    Notification Status
    Either activate or deactivate a notification setting. Deactivating a notification will stop the alert notification for that setting and activating it will activate the alert notification.
  3. Click
    Next
    .
  4. Select if you want to send notification at the organization level or at a specific OVDC level. The list of OVDCs/Organizations is updated based on your selection.
  5. From the list of OVDCs/Organizations, drag and drop the OVDC or Organization that should receive a notification, into the left pane.
    You can only add those OVDCs that have email addresses and email outbound instances configured. To configure email addresses and email outbound instances, see Configuring Tenant Email and Add a Standard Email Plug-In for Outbound Alerts respectively.
    The notifications will be sent to all selected OVDCs with configured email addresses and email outbound instances.
  6. Click
    Next
    .
  7. Define criteria for the notification rule. From the list of alert definitions, drag and drop the alert definition for which you want to trigger a notification, into the left pane.
    By default, the filter Only Tenant is set to
    Yes
    .
    The notification will be sent when ANY of the selected alert definitions triggers an alert.
  8. Click
    Create
    .
You can view the created notification from
Configure
Alerts
Tenant Notifications
.