Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) — Question 53
An administrator wants to be alerted when production VMs become idle. The VMs will be determined to be idle when CPU usage is lower than 5% for more than 5 minutes. All affected VMs are categorized as Environment:Production, since they have Flow microsegmentation rules.
What should the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?
Answer options
- A. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.
- B. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > take a snapshot > send an email as the action.
- C. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > reduce 1 CPU > send an email as the action.
- D. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.
Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is A because it allows for a broad alert that encompasses all VMs, which is necessary for identifying idle production VMs. Options B and D are incorrect as they limit the alert to a specific category, which may miss some relevant VMs. Option C is not suitable because reducing CPU does not address the requirement of alerting on idle status.