Subscribing to a Saved Search

CloudAdvisor provides the option of creating email notifications for saved searches. These email notifications are called subscriptions.

When creating a subscription, keep the following in mind:

• You create new saved search subscriptions from the Search tab.
• You manage existing subscriptions from the Manage Subscriptions tab. For more information, see Manage Subscriptions Tab.
• Subscriptions send results from saved searches to email recipients based on the defined subscription frequency (As Detected, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly).
• Subscriptions reflect the full state of the system at the time the subscription is run. They do not allow you to take action on the content found. You can configure Insight Profiles in the Insight Management tab to detect changes in content and perform actions. For more information on content Insight Policies, see Creating a Content Insight Policy.
• Creating a subscription from the Search tab requires that you first access or create either a public or private saved search. For details, see Saved Searches.

To create a subscription:

1. Create or access a saved search from the Saved Search menu in the Search tab.

2. Click the Subscribe button in the upper-right corner of the Search tab.

3. In the Subscription: Details dialog box, specify the following properties for the subscription:

   Field Name	Description
   Name	Name for the subscription.
   Saved search information	Information specific to the associated saved search. The information provided includes whether the saved search is public or private, and the saved search owner.
   Frequency	Interval at which you want to receive subscription notices. Possible options include As Detected, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
   Send email to	Email address, or multiple email addresses separated by semicolons, to which you want the subscription sent. The email address field can contain up to 75 ASCII characters.
   Email subject	Subject line used when sending emails. The Email subject field can contain up to 128 ASCII characters.

4. Click Continue.

5. Specify the monitoring for the subscription:

   • Automatic VM Monitoring (the default) — Monitors all existing VMs and any new VMs created.
   • Specific VM Monitoring — Monitor only selected VMs. If you select this option, CloudAdvisor displays a table listing all available VMs so that you can select the targets you want to monitor.

6. When you are finished, click Subscribe.