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Create a Warn Quota

As an operator, you want to know when users approach resource allocations in a particular development package. You can create a warning quota entry that displays informational messages in the dashboard when operations approach allocations.

Consider a Managed Service Provider (MSP) that offers the following Basic Development Package:

• 4 CPU cores
• 4 GB RAM
• 10 Mbps network bandwidth
• 500 GB disk space

The following procedure describes how to create a warn quota that displays a warning message when user operations provision 75 percent of the available resources in the Basic Development Package.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the grid shell from the GUI.
2. Create a warn quota entry as follows:

   group create warnGroup
   quota put warnGroup cpu=4 mem=4G bw=100M disk=500G warn=75 description=”Warn Quota”
   

When users in WarnGroup run operations subject to the quota, CA AppLogic® monitors the resource usage of the operation. When operations exceed the quota level (75 percent), an informational message is displayed on the dashboard.

For example, when a warnGroup user operation begins to use 3 GB or more of RAM, the following message appears on the dashboard:

Thu 06 Dec 2012 01:55:25 AM PST - User JDoe has used 75% of its memory quota.