Resource Management:Use resource groups and OOS for efficient O&M and management of resources

Scenarios

As the number of cloud resources of enterprises increases, O&M becomes more and more important. However, manual O&M cannot meet the requirements of enterprises. You can use OOS to implement automated O&M. OOS provides the best practices of operations as code. This allows you to create templates from manuals such as O&M guides, operation guides, and maintenance guides. Before the system implements automated O&M, the resources that require O&M must be identified. You can classify your cloud resources from various dimensions such as deployment environment, department, and project, into different resource groups, and use OOS to implement efficient O&M and management of the resources.

This topic provides an example on how to implement efficient O&M and management of resources by department. In this example, an enterprise has three departments, and each department uses multiple cloud resources and has different requirements for O&M on resources. The enterprise has only one Alibaba Cloud account, and more than 100 Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances are created within the account. The enterprise wants to implement efficient O&M and management of the resources by department.

Procedure

1. Create resource groups and transfer resources to the resource groups.

   1. Log on to the Resource Management console.

   2. Create resource groups.

      In this example, one resource group is created for each department.

      For more information, see Create a resource group.

   3. Transfer resources to the resource groups.

      In this example, ECS instances that belong to different departments are transferred to the related resource groups.

      For more information, see Transfer resources across resource groups.

2. Create O&M tasks based on the resource groups.

   1. Log on to the OOS console.

   2. Use public templates to create executions.

      In this example, the Run Command public template is selected. You can select the desired ECS instances by selecting the resource group to which the ECS instances belong. You can create executions based on different public templates for the three resource groups.

      For more information, see Automatic execution.

   3. View the execution results.

      For more information, see View the details of an execution.