Customizing the budget notification settings

You can receive automatic notifications via emails about the performance of your business services or cost pools against the budgets. To receive notifications, you must configure the budget notification settings. The default settings are set in the Settings page and are applicable to all business services and cost pools in your environment. If required, you can customize these settings for your business service or cost pool using the instructions provided in this section.

To customize the budget notification settings

1. Depending on whether you want to customize the notification settings for a Business Service or a Cost Pool, perform the following step:
   • Business Service: In the Business Services page, click the business service name which you want to customize the budget notifications for. The Business Service Cost Details page is displayed.
   • Cost Pool: In the Cost Pools page, click the cost pool name which you want to customize the budget notifications for. The Cost Pool Details page is displayed.
2. Click the Budget tab.
3. To configure the budget notifications, click Set Notifications. By default, the notification settings that are set in the Settings page are displayed. These default settings for budget notifications are applicable to all business services and cost pools in your environment. 
4. To customize the settings for the selected business service or cost pool, select Use custom settings.
   1. Configure the custom notification conditions. 
       denotes that the editing of the setting is enabled. By default, all notifications settings are enabled. 
      Specify atleast one of the following conditions: 
      
      • When the cost of the business service or cost pool reaches the specified percentage of the assigned budget.
      • When the projected cost value crosses the assigned budget in less than the specified number of days.
      • When the projected cost value for the current month is more than the specified percentages in comparison with the previous month.
        You can decide whether to send the notifications only for those business services or cost pools with budget assigned, or for all business services and cost pools in your environment. 
        
        • Notify only when budget is assigned - Select this option to send notifications if your business service or cost pool has a budget assigned. 
        • Notify irrespective of budget being assigned or not - Select this option to send notifications irrespective of budget being assigned or not. This option allows you to receive notification even if you have not assigned any budget to the business service or cost pool and want to compare the projected cost of the current month with the cost of the previous month.
   2. Specify the email addresses. Click + Add email address to enter a new email address and x to remove the address or x Clear All to remove all addresses. 
5. Click Save to save the notification settings or Save & evaluate notifications to trigger the notifications to the specified email addresses if atleast one of the notification conditions is satisfied.