How should the administrator satisfy this request from the Accounting department?

An administrator manages a Nutanix cluster with 630 VMs, all of which are in production.

The Accounting department wants to be notified when any of their production VMs exceed 90% CPU usage or 90% memory usage. Their VMs are categorized as LOB:Accounting.

How should the administrator satisfy this request from the Accounting department?
A . Direct the VM users to generate alerts within the affected VMs.
B . Create a dashboard in Prism Central with the CPU Usage.
C . Create a category named Department with the value Accounting.
D . Create an Alert with the Accounting category assigned.

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Answer: D

Explanation:

Alerts are a way of monitoring the health and performance of the Nutanix cluster and the VMs running on it. Alerts can be triggered by various metrics, such as CPU usage, memory usage, disk space, network traffic, etc. Alerts can also be configured to send notifications to the administrator or other recipients via email, Slack, PagerDuty, etc. To satisfy the request from the Accounting department, the administrator should create an Alert with the following settings: Trigger: CPU Usage (%) > 90 OR Memory Usage (%) > 90 Scope: VM

Category: LOB:Accounting

Notification: Email to [email protected] This way, the Alert will only apply to the VMs that belong to the Accounting department, and will send an email notification to the Accounting department when any of their VMs exceed the specified thresholds.

Reference: Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA), page 9; Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA), section 1; [Nutanix Prism Central Guide – Alerts]

Reference: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:ale-alert-health-toc-auto-u.html