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Create an Action for CPU Metric

Policy provides the creation of rules and actions that can be used to create policies for the automated management of systems. Custom actions can be created for actions not included in the default library.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Resources.

   The Resources page appears.

2. Open the Explore pane.

   Available groups, services, and systems appear.

3. Click Policy, then click Actions.

   The Actions page appears.

4. Click ‘+’ on the upper right side bar to add an action.
5. Enter the name of the Action.
6. Select Resource Configuration from the Category drop-down list.
7. Select Configure Shares from the Type drop-down list.
8. In the VC Server field, leave the entry as "%VCServer%" to apply this action on any VM across any VC Server.
9. In the VC Data Center field, leave the entry as “%DATACENTER%".
10. In the Target VM Machine field, leave the entry as “%VMNAME%".
11. Select Set CPU from the Operations drop-down list and enter Values as 10000.

    The number is arbitrary and the share values are set to normal.

    Note: Use higher or lower numbers to increase and decrease the share allocations accordingly.

12. If the changes require approval, enable Help Desk Approval.

    A Message will appear in the Event Console after the Action is created.

    CAAP4521 Policy: Action <action name> was created.