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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.