Auto Scaling of SAP Systems on Azure – Part VI

This is in continuation of my previous Article Auto Scaling of SAP Systems on Azure – Part V

4.6 Creating Action Groups

Now we need to define the Actions Groups so that Automation Runbooks can be triggered as per the conditions.

4.6.1 Action Group for Scale Out

We need Action group for scale out actions for SAP systems, to do the same Goto Monitor from the Azure Portal and click on Manage actions

Now click on New Action Group for creating new groups

Specify the basic information that is required to create the Manage Group and click on Notification

Specify the Notification details and then click on Actions

Specify the Option of Automation Runbook in the action Type

Specify the details of the Automation Runbook which should run when this alert is triggered

It will also open the Automation runbook’s parameters which we need to fill for the successful execution

Now we need to click on Tags

Specify the Tags if any, then click on Review + Create

Cross check all the settings and then click on Create

Once the Action group is created then we can see the name in the Manage actions

4.6.2 Action Group for Scale Down

We need Action group for scale down actions for SAP systems, to do the same Goto Monitor from the Azure Portal and click on Manage actions

Now we need to click on New Action Group

Specify all the basic details of the action group for scale down and click on Notification

Specify the Notification details and then click on Actions

Specify the action as Automation Runbook

Now we need to fill out details about the Azure Runbook which we need to execute

Now, a new window will pop out which asks to fill the parameters of the Azure Runbook which we have selected in earlier screen

Specify the other details such as Name in the Actions Tab and clock on Tags

Specify the tags, if any and then click on Review + Create

Check all the information filled and then click on Create

We can now see the Action group has been created

Now our action group is ready to be used by the alerts to act.

This is end of Part – VI, in next part Auto Scaling of SAP Systems on Azure – Part VII of this article you can find more information about Deployment and Configuration of Alerts and Azure Runbooks of this Solution.