Bug 1396544

Summary: [DOC] Creating Hardware Reconfigured Alert is not fully documented
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Reporter: Dmitry Misharov <dmisharo>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Red Hat CloudForms Documentation <cloudforms-docs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Red Hat CloudForms Documentation <cloudforms-docs>
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Version: 5.7.0CC: adahms, hhudgeon, jhardy, obarenbo
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Target Release: cfme-future   
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Description Dmitry Misharov 2016-11-18 15:33:12 UTC 
Document URL: 
http://manageiq.org/docs/reference/latest/doc-Monitoring_Alerts_and_Reporting/miq/#_to_create_a_hardware_reconfigure_alert

Section Number and Name: 
6.3. Creating a Hardware Reconfigured Alert

Describe the issue: 
If you create a hardware reconfigured alert it won't triggered without some additional preparations which are not described in the documentation.

Suggestions for improvement:
The documentation should notice that drift history is required for hardware reconfigured alerts.

Additional information:
Required steps for triggering hardware reconfigured alerts based on CPU Count:

1. Run VM smart state analysis.
2. Change CPU count.
3. Run VM smart state analysis again.
4. Run Vm reconfigure again.

Then the alert for CPU count change should be triggered. It is either CPU increased or decreased depending on what has been done in your step 2, not the result of step 4. Step 4 is just to trigger the event.

More information here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392964
Comment 2 Andrew Dahms 2018-10-09 00:04:22 UTC 
Thank you for raising this bug.

We have evaluated this request, and while we recognize that it is a valid request for the documentation, we do not expect this to be implemented in the product in the foreseeable future. We are therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. 

If you have any concerns about this, please feel free to contact Andrew Dahms.