diff --git a/core/message-bus/northbound_producer.py b/core/message-bus/northbound_producer.py
index 4c304a0..d0e96bc 100644
--- a/core/message-bus/northbound_producer.py
+++ b/core/message-bus/northbound_producer.py
@@ -2,32 +2,38 @@
 from kafka.errors import KafkaError
 import logging
 import json
+import os
 
 
 class KafkaProducer(object):
 
-    def __init__(self):
-        if not cfg.CONF.kafka.uri:
-            raise Exception("Kafka URI Not Found. Check the config file for Kafka URI")
-        else:
-            broker = cfg.CONF.kafka.uri
-        producer = KafkaProducer(key_serializer=str.encode, value_serializer=lambda v: json.dumps(v).encode('ascii'), bootstrap_servers='localhost:9092', api_version=(0,10))
+    def __init__(self, topic, message):
 
-    def publish(self, topic, messages):
+        self._topic= topic
+        self._message = message
 
-        """Takes messages and puts them on the supplied kafka topic
-        Memory Usage is used as a test value for alarm creation for
-        topic 'alarms'. 'Configure_alarm' is the key, resource UUID
-        and type of alarm are the list of values.
+    if "ZOOKEEPER_URI" in os.environ:
+        broker = os.getenv("ZOOKEEPER_URI")
+    else:
+        broker = "SO-ub.lxd:2181"
 
-        """
+        '''
+        If the zookeeper broker URI is not set in the env, by default,
+        SO-ub.lxd container is taken as the host because an instance of
+        is already running.
+        '''
 
-        payload = {'configure_alarm': ['memory_usage']}
+        producer = KafkaProducer(key_serializer=str.encode,
+                   value_serializer=lambda v: json.dumps(v).encode('ascii'),
+                   bootstrap_servers=broker, api_version=(0,10))
+
+
+    def publish(self, key, message, topic=None):
         try:
-            future = producer.send('alarms', payload)
+            future = producer.send('alarms', key, payload)
             producer.flush()
         except Exception:
-            log.exception('Error publishing to {} topic.'.format(topic))
+            log.exception("Error publishing to {} topic." .format(topic))
             raise
         try:
             record_metadata = future.get(timeout=10)
@@ -36,5 +42,253 @@
             self._log.debug("OFFSET:", record_metadata.offset)
         except KafkaError:
             pass
-    #producer = KafkaProducer(retries=5)
 
+    def configure_alarm(self, key, message, topic):
+
+        payload_configure = {
+            "alarm_configuration":
+             {
+               "schema_version": 1.0,
+               "schema_type": "configure_alarm",
+               "alarm_configuration":
+               {
+                 "metric_name": { "type": "string" },
+                 "tenant_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+                 "resource_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+                 "description": { "type": "string" },
+                 "severity": { "type": "string" },
+                 "operation": { "type": "string" },
+                 "threshold_value": { "type": "integer" },
+                 "unit": { "type": "string" },
+                 "statistic": { "type": "string" }
+               },
+               "required": [ "schema_version",
+                             "schema_type",
+                             "metric_name",
+                             "resource_uuid",
+                             "severity",
+                             "operation",
+                             "threshold_value",
+                             "unit",
+                             "statistic" ]
+             }
+           }
+
+        publish(key, value=json.dumps(payload_configure), topic='alarms')
+
+    def notify_alarm(self, key, message, topic):
+
+        payload_notify = {
+            "notify_alarm":
+            {
+              "schema_version": 1.0,
+              "schema_type": "notify_alarm",
+              "notify_details":
+              {
+                "alarm_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+                "resource_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+                "description": { "type": "string" },
+                "tenant_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+                "severity": { "type" : ["integer", "string"] },
+                "status": { "type": "string" },
+                "start_date": { "type": "date-time" },
+                "update_date": { "type": "date-time" },
+                "cancel_date": { "type": "date-time" }
+              },
+              "required": [ "schema_version",
+                            "schema_type",
+                            "alarm_uuid",
+                            "resource_uuid",
+                            "tenant_uuid",
+                            "severity",
+                            "status",
+                            "start_date" ]
+            }
+         }
+
+        publish(key, value=json.dumps(payload_notify), topic='alarms')
+
+    def alarm_ack(self, key, message, topic):
+
+        payload_ack = {
+            "alarm_ack":
+            {
+              "schema_version": 1.0,
+              "schema_type": "alarm_ack",
+              "ack_details":
+              {
+                "alarm_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+                "tenant_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+                "resource_uuid": { "type": "string" }
+              },
+              "required": [ "schema_version",
+                            "schema_type",
+                            "alarm_uuid",
+                            "tenant_uuid",
+                            "resource_uuid" ]
+            }
+          }
+
+        publish(key, value.json.dumps(payload_ack), topic='alarms')
+
+    def configure_metrics(self, key, message, topic):
+
+        payload_configure_metrics = {
+            "configure_metrics":
+            {
+              "schema_version": 1.0,
+              "schema_type": "configure_metrics",
+              "tenant_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+              "metrics_configuration":
+              {
+                "metric_name": { "type": "string" },
+                "metric_unit": { "type": "string" },
+                "resource_uuid": { "type": "string" }
+              },
+              "required": [ "schema_version",
+                            "schema_type",
+                            "metric_name",
+                            "metric_unit",
+                            "resource_uuid" ]
+            }
+          }
+
+        publish(key, value.json.dumps(payload_configure_metrics), topic='metrics')
+
+    def metric_data_request(self, key, message, topic):
+
+        payload_metric_data_request = {
+            "metric_data_request":
+            {
+              "schema_version": 1.0,
+              "schema_type": "metric_data_request",
+              "metric_name": { "type": "string" },
+              "resource_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+              "tenant_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+              "collection_period": { "type": "string" }
+            },
+            "required": ["schema_version",
+                         "schema_type",
+                         "tenant_uuid",
+                         "metric_name",
+                         "collection_period",
+                         "resource_uuid"]
+          }
+
+        publish(key, value.json.dumps(payload_metric_data_request), topic='metrics')
+
+    def metric_data_response(self, key, message, topic):
+
+        payload_metric_data_response = {
+            "metric_data_response":
+            {
+              "schema_version": 1.0,
+              "schema_type": "metric_data_response",
+              "metrics_name": { "type": "string" },
+              "resource_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+              "tenant_uuid": { "type": "string" },
+              "metrics_data":
+              {
+                "time_series": { "type": "array" },
+                "metrics_series": { "type": "array" }
+              }
+            },
+            "required": [ "schema_version",
+                          "schema_type",
+                          "metrics_name",
+                          "resource_uuid",
+                          "tenant_uuid",
+                          "time_series",
+                          "metrics_series" ]
+          }
+
+        publish(key, value.json.dumps(payload_metric_data_response), topic='metrics')
+
+    def access_credentials(self, key, message, topic):
+
+        payload_access_credentials = {
+            "access_credentials":
+            {
+              "schema_version": 1.0,
+              "schema_type": "vim_access_credentials",
+              "vim_type": { "type": "string" },
+              "required": [ "schema_version",
+                            "schema_type",
+                            "vim_type" ],
+              "access_config":
+              {
+                "if":
+                {
+                  "vim_type": "openstack"
+                },
+                "then":
+                {
+                  "openstack-site": { "type": "string" },
+                  "user": { "type": "string" },
+                  "password": { "type": "string",
+                                "options": { "hidden": true }},
+                  "vim_tenant_name": { "type": "string" }
+                },
+                "required": [ "openstack_site",
+                              "user",
+                              "password",
+                              "vim_tenant_name" ],
+                "else":
+                {
+                  "vim_type": "aws"
+                },
+                "then":
+                {
+                  "aws_site": { "type": "string" },
+                  "user": { "type": "string" },
+                  "password": { "type": "string",
+                                "options": { "hidden": true }},
+                  "vim_tenant_name": { "type": "string" }
+                },
+                "required": [ "aws_site",
+                              "user",
+                              "password",
+                              "vim_tenant_name" ],
+                "else":
+                {
+                  "vim_type": "VMWare"
+                },
+                "then":
+                {
+                  "vrops_site": { "type": "string" },
+                  "vrops_user": { "type": "string" },
+                  "vrops_password": { "type": "string",
+                                      "options": { "hidden": true }},
+                  "vcloud_site": { "type": "string" },
+                  "admin_username": { "type": "string" },
+                  "admin_password": { "type": "string",
+                                      "options": { "hidden": true }},
+                  "nsx_manager": { "type": "string" },
+                  "nsx_user": { "type": "string" },
+                  "nsx_password": { "type": "string",
+                                    "options": { "hidden": true }},
+                  "vcenter_ip": { "type": "string" },
+                  "vcenter_port": { "type": "string" },
+                  "vcenter_user": { "type": "string" },
+                  "vcenter_password": { "type": "string",
+                                        "options": { "hidden": true }},
+                  "vim_tenant_name": { "type": "string" },
+                  "org_name": { "type": "string" }
+                },
+                "required": [ "vrops_site",
+                              "vrops_user",
+                              "vrops_password",
+                              "vcloud_site",
+                              "admin_username",
+                              "admin_password",
+                              "vcenter_ip",
+                              "vcenter_port",
+                              "vcenter_user",
+                              "vcenter_password",
+                              "vim_tenant_name",
+                              "orgname" ]
+              }
+            }
+          }
+
+        publish(key, value.json.dumps(payload_access_credentials), topic='access_credentials')
diff --git a/plugins/OpenStack/Ceilometer/.gitkeep b/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/.gitkeep
similarity index 100%
rename from plugins/OpenStack/Ceilometer/.gitkeep
rename to plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/.gitkeep
diff --git a/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/__init__.py b/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/__init__.py
diff --git a/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/metrics.py b/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/metrics.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc1a729
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/metrics.py
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+"""Gnocchi acts on a metric message received from the SO via MON."""
+
+import json
+import logging as log
+
+from kafka import KafkaConsumer
+
+from plugins.OpenStack.common import Common
+
+
+class Metrics(object):
+    """Gnocchi based metric actions performed on info from MON."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        """Initialize the metric actions."""
+        self._common = Common()
+
+        # TODO(mcgoughh): Initialize a generic consumer object to consume
+        # message from the SO. This is hardcoded for now
+        server = {'server': 'localhost:9092', 'topic': 'metrics'}
+        self._consumer = KafkaConsumer(server['topic'],
+                                       group_id='my-group',
+                                       bootstrap_servers=server['server'])
+
+        # TODO(mcgoughh): Initialize a producer to send messages bask to the SO
+
+    def metric_calls(self):
+        """Consume info from the message bus to manage metrics."""
+        # Concumer check for metric messages
+        for message in self._consumer:
+
+            if message.topic == "metrics":
+                log.info("Metric action required on this topic: %s",
+                         (message.topic))
+
+                if message.key == "configure_metric":
+                    # Configure/Update a resource and its metric
+                    values = json.loads(message.value)
+                    schema = values['configure_metrics']
+                    metric_details = schema['metrics_configuration']
+
+                    # Generate authentication credentials via keystone:
+                    # auth_token, endpoint
+                    auth_token = self._common._authenticate(
+                        schema['tenant_uuid'])
+                    endpoint = self._common.get_endpoint("metric")
+
+                    metric_id = self.configure_metric(
+                        endpoint, auth_token, metric_details)
+                    log.info("New metric created with metricID: %s", metric_id)
+
+                    # TODO(mcgoughh): will send an acknowledge message back on
+                    # the bus via the producer
+
+                # TODO(mcoughh): Key alternatives are "metric_data_request" and
+                # "metric_data_response" will be accomodated later
+                # Will also need a producer for this functionality
+                elif message.key == "metric_data_request":
+                    log.debug("Key used to request a metrics data")
+
+                elif message.key == "metric_data_response":
+                    log.debug("Key used for a metrics data response")
+
+                else:
+                    log.debug("Unknown key, no action will be performed")
+
+            else:
+                log.info("Message topic not relevant to this plugin: %s",
+                         message.topic)
+
+        return
+
+    def configure_metric(self, endpoint, auth_token, values):
+        """Create the new SO desired metric in Gnocchi."""
+        metric_id = None
+
+        # TODO(mcgoughh): error check the values sent in the message
+        # will query the database for the request resource and then
+        # check that resource for the desired metric
+        metric_name = values['metric_name']
+
+        if metric_id is None:
+
+            # Need to create a new version of the resource for gnocchi to
+            # the new metric
+            resource_url = "{}/v1/resource/generic".format(endpoint)
+
+            metric = {'name': metric_name,
+                      'unit': values['metric_unit'], }
+
+            resource_payload = json.dumps({'id': values['resource_uuid'],
+                                           'metrics': {metric_name: metric}})
+
+            new_resource = self._common._perform_request(
+                resource_url, auth_token,
+                req_type="post", payload=resource_payload)
+            new_metric = json.loads(new_resource.text)['metrics']
+
+            return new_metric[metric_name]
+        else:
+            return metric_id
+
+    def delete_metric(self, endpoint, auth_token, metric_id):
+        """Delete metric."""
+        url = "{}/v1/metric/%s".format(endpoint) % (metric_id)
+
+        self._common._perform_request(url, auth_token, req_type="delete")
+        return None
+
+    def list_metrics(self, endpoint, auth_token):
+        """List all metrics."""
+        url = "{}/v1/metric/".format(endpoint)
+
+        metric_list = self._common._perform_request(
+            url, auth_token, req_type="get")
+        return json.loads(metric_list.text)
diff --git a/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/plugin_instance.py b/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/plugin_instance.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f9e306
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/OpenStack/Gnocchi/plugin_instance.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+"""Gnocchi plugin for the OSM monitoring module."""
+
+import logging as log
+
+from plugins.OpenStack.Gnocchi.metrics import Metrics
+from plugins.OpenStack.settings import Config
+
+
+def register_plugin():
+    """Register the plugin."""
+    config = Config.instance()
+    instance = Plugin(config=config)
+    instance.config()
+    instance.metrics()
+
+
+class Plugin(object):
+    """Gnocchi plugin for OSM MON."""
+
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        """Plugin instance."""
+        log.info("Initialze the plugin instance.")
+        self._config = config
+        self._metrics = Metrics()
+
+    def config(self):
+        """Configure plugin."""
+        log.info("Configure the plugin instance.")
+        self._config.read_environ("gnocchi")
+
+    def metrics(self):
+        """Initialize metric functionality."""
+        log.info("Initialize metric functionality.")
+        self._metrics.metric_calls()
+
+register_plugin()
diff --git a/plugins/OpenStack/__init__.py b/plugins/OpenStack/__init__.py
index 805dce3..e69de29 100644
--- a/plugins/OpenStack/__init__.py
+++ b/plugins/OpenStack/__init__.py
Binary files differ
diff --git a/plugins/OpenStack/common.py b/plugins/OpenStack/common.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d706456
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/OpenStack/common.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+"""Common methods for the Aodh Sender/Receiver."""
+
+import logging as log
+
+from keystoneclient.v3 import client
+
+from plugins.OpenStack.settings import Config
+
+import requests
+
+# from keystoneauth1.identity.v3 import AuthMethod
+# from keystoneclient.service_catalog import ServiceCatalog
+
+
+class Common(object):
+    """Common calls for Gnocchi/Aodh plugins."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        """Create the common instance."""
+        self._auth_token = None
+        self._endpoint = None
+        self._ks = None
+
+    def _authenticate(self, tenant_id):
+        """Authenticate and/or renew the authentication token."""
+        if self._auth_token is not None:
+            return self._auth_token
+
+        try:
+            cfg = Config.instance()
+            self._ks = client.Client(auth_url=cfg.OS_AUTH_URL,
+                                     username=cfg.OS_USERNAME,
+                                     password=cfg.OS_PASSWORD,
+                                     tenant_name=cfg.OS_TENANT_NAME)
+            self._auth_token = self._ks.auth_token
+        except Exception as exc:
+
+            log.warn("Authentication failed with the following exception: %s",
+                     exc)
+            self._auth_token = None
+
+        return self._auth_token
+
+    def get_endpoint(self, service_type):
+        """Get the endpoint for Gnocchi/Aodh."""
+        try:
+            return self._ks.service_catalog.url_for(
+                service_type=service_type,
+                endpoint_type='internalURL',
+                region_name='RegionOne')
+        except Exception as exc:
+            log.warning("Failed to retreive endpoint for Aodh due to: %s",
+                        exc)
+        return None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _perform_request(cls, url, auth_token,
+                         req_type=None, payload=None, params=None):
+        """Perform the POST/PUT/GET/DELETE request."""
+        # request headers
+        headers = {'X-Auth-Token': auth_token,
+                   'Content-type': 'application/json'}
+        # perform request and return its result
+        response = None
+        try:
+            if req_type == "put":
+                response = requests.put(
+                    url, data=payload, headers=headers,
+                    timeout=1)
+            elif req_type == "post":
+                response = requests.post(
+                    url, data=payload, headers=headers,
+                    timeout=1)
+            elif req_type == "get":
+                response = requests.get(
+                    url, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=1)
+            elif req_type == "delete":
+                response = requests.delete(
+                    url, headers=headers, timeout=1)
+            else:
+                log.warn("Invalid request type")
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            log.warn("Exception thrown on request", e)
+
+        return response
diff --git a/plugins/vRealiseOps/mon_plugin_vrops.py b/plugins/vRealiseOps/mon_plugin_vrops.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a65d01c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/vRealiseOps/mon_plugin_vrops.py
@@ -0,0 +1,580 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+Montoring metrics & creating Alarm definations in vROPs
+"""
+
+import requests
+import logging as log
+from pyvcloud.vcloudair import VCA
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as XmlElementTree
+import traceback
+
+OPERATION_MAPPING = {'GE':'GT_EQ', 'LE':'LT_EQ', 'GT':'GT', 'LT':'LT', 'EQ':'EQ'}
+SEVERITY_MAPPING = {'WARNING':'WARNING', 'MINOR':'WARNING', 'MAJOR':"IMMEDIATE", 'CRITICAL':'CRITICAL'}
+
+
+class MonPlugin():
+    """MON Plugin class for vROPs telemetry plugin
+    """ 
+    def __init__(self, access_config={}):
+        """Constructor of MON plugin
+        Params:
+            'access_config': dictionary with VIM access information based on VIM type. 
+            This contains a consolidate version of VIM & monitoring tool config at creation and 
+            particular VIM config at their attachment.
+            For VIM type: 'vmware', access_config - {'vrops_site':<>, 'vrops_user':<>, 'vrops_password':<>,
+                                                    'vcloud-site':<>,'admin_username':<>,'admin_password':<>,
+                                                    'nsx_manager':<>,'nsx_user':<>,'nsx_password':<>,
+                                                    'vcenter_ip':<>,'vcenter_port':<>,'vcenter_user':<>,'vcenter_password':<>,
+                                                    'vim_tenant_name':<>,'orgname':<>}
+
+        #To Do
+        Returns: Raise an exception if some needed parameter is missing, but it must not do any connectivity
+            check against the VIM
+        """
+        self.access_config = access_config
+        self.vrops_site =  access_config['vrops_site']
+        self.vrops_user = access_config['vrops_user']
+        self.vrops_password = access_config['vrops_password']
+        self.vcloud_site = access_config['vcloud_site']
+        self.vcloud_username = access_config['vcloud_username']
+        self.vcloud_password = access_config['vcloud_password']
+
+    def configure_alarm(self, config_dict = {}):
+        """Configures or creates a new alarm using the input parameters in config_dict
+        Params:
+        "alarm_name": Alarm name in string format
+        "description": Description of alarm in string format
+        "resource_uuid": Resource UUID for which alarm needs to be configured. in string format
+        "Resource type": String resource type: 'VDU' or 'host'
+        "Severity": 'WARNING', 'MINOR', 'MAJOR', 'CRITICAL'
+        "metric": Metric key in string format
+        "operation": One of ('GE', 'LE', 'GT', 'LT', 'EQ')
+        "threshold_value": Defines the threshold (up to 2 fraction digits) that, if crossed, will trigger the alarm.
+        "unit": Unit of measurement in string format
+        "statistic": AVERAGE, MINIMUM, MAXIMUM, COUNT, SUM
+
+        Default parameters for each alarm are read from the plugin specific config file.
+        Dict of default parameters is as follows:
+        default_params keys = {'cancel_cycles','wait_cycles','resource_kind','adapter_kind','alarm_type','alarm_subType',impact}
+
+        Returns the UUID of created alarm or None
+        """
+        alarm_def_uuid = None
+        #1) get alarm & metrics parameters from plugin specific file
+        def_params = self.get_default_Params(config_dict['alarm_name'])
+        metric_key_params = self.get_default_Params(config_dict['metric'])
+        #2) create symptom definition
+        #TO DO - 'metric_key':config_dict['metric'] - mapping from file def_params
+        symptom_params ={'cancel_cycles': (def_params['cancel_period']/300)*def_params['cancel_cycles'],
+                        'wait_cycles': (def_params['period']/300)*def_params['evaluation'],
+                        'resource_kind_key': def_params['resource_kind'],'adapter_kind_key': def_params['adapter_kind'],
+                        'symptom_name':config_dict['alarm_name'],'severity': SEVERITY_MAPPING[config_dict['severity']],
+                        'metric_key':metric_key_params['metric_key'],'operation':OPERATION_MAPPING[config_dict['operation']],
+                        'threshold_value':config_dict['threshold_value']}
+        symptom_uuid = self.create_symptom(symptom_params)
+        if symptom_uuid is not None:
+            log.info("Symptom defined: {} with ID: {}".format(symptom_params['symptom_name'],symptom_uuid))
+        else:
+            log.warn("Failed to create Symptom: {}".format(symptom_params['symptom_name']))
+            return None
+        #3) create alert definition
+        #To Do - Get type & subtypes for all 5 alarms 
+        alarm_params = {'name':config_dict['alarm_name'],
+                        'description':config_dict['description'] if config_dict['description'] is not None else config_dict['alarm_name'],
+                        'adapterKindKey':def_params['adapter_kind'], 'resourceKindKey':def_params['resource_kind'],
+                        'waitCycles':1, 'cancelCycles':1,
+                        'type':def_params['alarm_type'], 'subType':def_params['alarm_subType'],
+                        'severity':SEVERITY_MAPPING[config_dict['severity']],
+                        'symptomDefinitionId':symptom_uuid,
+                        'impact':def_params['impact']}
+
+        alarm_def_uuid = self.create_alarm_definition(alarm_params)
+        if alarm_def_uuid is None:
+            log.warn("Failed to create Alert: {}".format(alarm_params['name']))
+            return None
+
+        log.info("Alarm defined: {} with ID: {}".format(alarm_params['name'],alarm_def_uuid))
+
+        #4) Find vm_moref_id from vApp uuid in vCD
+        vm_moref_id = self.get_vm_moref_id(config_dict['resource_uuid'])
+        if vm_moref_id is None:
+            log.warn("Failed to find vm morefid for vApp in vCD: {}".format(config_dict['resource_uuid']))
+            return None
+
+        #5) Based on vm_moref_id, find VM's corresponding resource_id in vROPs to set notification
+        resource_id = self.get_vm_resource_id(vm_moref_id)
+        if resource_id is None:
+            log.warn("Failed to find resource in vROPs: {}".format(config_dict['resource_uuid']))
+            return None
+
+        #6) Configure alarm notification for a particular VM using it's resource_id
+        notification_id = self.create_alarm_notification(config_dict['alarm_name'], alarm_def_uuid, resource_id)
+        if notification_id is None:
+            return None
+        else:
+            log.info("Alarm defination created with notification: {} with ID: {}".format(alarm_params['name'],alarm_def_uuid))
+            return alarm_def_uuid
+
+    def get_default_Params(self, metric_alarm_name):
+        """
+        Read the default config parameters from plugin specific file stored with plugin file.
+        Params:
+            metric_alarm_name: Name of the alarm, whose congif params to be read from the config file.
+        """
+        tree = XmlElementTree.parse('vROPs_default_config.xml')
+        alarms = tree.getroot()
+        a_params = {}
+        for alarm in alarms:
+            if alarm.tag == metric_alarm_name:
+                for param in alarm:
+                    if param.tag in ("period", "evaluation", "cancel_period", "alarm_type", "cancel_cycles", "alarm_subType"):
+                        a_params[param.tag] = int(param.text)
+                    elif param.tag in ("enabled", "repeat"):
+                        if(param.text == "True" or param.text == "true"):
+                            a_params[param.tag] = True
+                        else:
+                            a_params[param.tag] = False
+                    else:
+                        a_params[param.tag] = param.text
+
+        if not a_params:
+            log.warn("No such '{}' alarm found!.".format(alarm))
+
+        return a_params
+
+
+    def create_symptom(self, symptom_params):
+        """Create Symptom definition for an alarm
+        Params:
+        symptom_params: Dict of parameters required for defining a symptom as follows
+            cancel_cycles
+            wait_cycles
+            resource_kind_key = "VirtualMachine"
+            adapter_kind_key = "VMWARE"
+            symptom_name = Test_Memory_Usage_TooHigh
+            severity
+            metric_key
+            operation = GT_EQ
+            threshold_value = 85
+        Returns the uuid of Symptom definition
+        """
+        symptom_id = None
+
+        try:
+            api_url = '/suite-api/api/symptomdefinitions'
+            headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/xml'}
+            data = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+                        <ops:symptom-definition cancelCycles="{0:s}" waitCycles="{1:s}" resourceKindKey="{2:s}" adapterKindKey="{3:s}" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ops="http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/">
+                            <ops:name>{4:s}</ops:name>
+                            <ops:state severity="{5:s}">
+                                <ops:condition xsi:type="ops:htCondition">
+                                    <ops:key>{6:s}</ops:key>
+                                    <ops:operator>{7:s}</ops:operator>
+                                    <ops:value>{8:s}</ops:value>
+                                    <ops:valueType>NUMERIC</ops:valueType>
+                                    <ops:instanced>false</ops:instanced>
+                                    <ops:thresholdType>STATIC</ops:thresholdType>
+                                </ops:condition>
+                            </ops:state>
+                        </ops:symptom-definition>""".format(str(symptom_params['cancel_cycles']),str(symptom_params['wait_cycles']),symptom_params['resource_kind_key'],
+                                                            symptom_params['adapter_kind_key'],symptom_params['symptom_name'],symptom_params['severity'],
+                                                            symptom_params['metric_key'],symptom_params['operation'],str(symptom_params['threshold_value']))
+
+            resp = requests.post(self.vrops_site + api_url,
+                                 auth=(self.vrops_user, self.vrops_password),
+                                 headers=headers,
+                                 verify = False,
+                                 data=data)
+
+            if resp.status_code != 201:
+                log.warn("Failed to create Symptom definition: {}, response {}".format(symptom_params['symptom_name'], resp.content))
+                return None
+
+            symptom_xmlroot = XmlElementTree.fromstring(resp.content)
+            if symptom_xmlroot is not None and 'id' in symptom_xmlroot.attrib:
+                symptom_id = symptom_xmlroot.attrib['id']
+
+            return symptom_id
+
+        except Exception as exp:
+            log.warn("Error creating symptom definition : {}\n{}".format(exp, traceback.format_exc()))
+
+
+    def create_alarm_definition(self, alarm_params):
+        """
+        Create an alarm definition in vROPs
+        Params:
+            'name': Alarm Name,
+            'description':Alarm description,
+            'adapterKindKey': Adapter type in vROPs "VMWARE", 
+            'resourceKindKey':Resource type in vROPs "VirtualMachine",
+            'waitCycles': No of wait cycles, 
+            'cancelCycles': No of cancel cycles,
+            'type': Alarm type: , 
+            'subType': Alarm subtype: ,
+            'severity': Severity in vROPs "CRITICAL",
+            'symptomDefinitionId':symptom Definition uuid,
+            'impact': impact 'risk'
+        Returns:
+            'alarm_uuid': returns alarm uuid
+        """
+
+        alarm_uuid = None
+
+        try:
+            api_url = '/suite-api/api/alertdefinitions'
+            headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/xml'}
+            data = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+                        <ops:alert-definition xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ops="http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/">
+                            <ops:name>{0:s}</ops:name>
+                            <ops:description>{1:s}</ops:description>
+                            <ops:adapterKindKey>{2:s}</ops:adapterKindKey>
+                            <ops:resourceKindKey>{3:s}</ops:resourceKindKey>
+                            <ops:waitCycles>1</ops:waitCycles>
+                            <ops:cancelCycles>1</ops:cancelCycles>
+                            <ops:type>{4:s}</ops:type>
+                            <ops:subType>{5:s}</ops:subType>
+                            <ops:states>
+                                <ops:state severity="{6:s}">
+                                    <ops:symptom-set>
+                                        <ops:symptomDefinitionIds>
+                                            <ops:symptomDefinitionId>{7:s}</ops:symptomDefinitionId>
+                                        </ops:symptomDefinitionIds>
+                                        <ops:relation>SELF</ops:relation>
+                                        <ops:aggregation>ALL</ops:aggregation>
+                                        <ops:symptomSetOperator>AND</ops:symptomSetOperator>
+                                    </ops:symptom-set>
+                                    <ops:impact>
+                                        <ops:impactType>BADGE</ops:impactType>
+                                        <ops:detail>{8:s}</ops:detail>
+                                    </ops:impact>
+                                </ops:state>
+                            </ops:states>
+                        </ops:alert-definition>""".format(alarm_params['name'],alarm_params['description'],alarm_params['adapterKindKey'],
+                                                            alarm_params['resourceKindKey'],str(alarm_params['type']),str(alarm_params['subType']),
+                                                            alarm_params['severity'],alarm_params['symptomDefinitionId'],alarm_params['impact'])
+
+            resp = requests.post(self.vrops_site + api_url,
+                                 auth=(self.vrops_user, self.vrops_password),
+                                 headers=headers,
+                                 verify = False,
+                                 data=data)
+
+            if resp.status_code != 201:
+                log.warn("Failed to create Alarm definition: {}, response {}".format(alarm_params['name'], resp.content))
+                return None
+
+            alarm_xmlroot = XmlElementTree.fromstring(resp.content)
+            for child in alarm_xmlroot:
+                if child.tag.split("}")[1] == 'id':
+                    alarm_uuid = child.text
+
+            return alarm_uuid
+
+        except Exception as exp:
+            log.warn("Error creating alarm definition : {}\n{}".format(exp, traceback.format_exc()))
+
+
+    def configure_rest_plugin(self, plugin_name, webhook_url, certificate):
+        """
+        Creates REST Plug-in for vROPs outbound alerts
+
+        Params:
+        plugin_name: name of REST plugin instance
+        pluginTypeId - RestPlugin
+        Optional configValues 
+        "Url">https://dev14136.service-now.com:8080</ops:configValue> - reqd
+        "Username">admin</ops:configValue>                    - optional
+        "Password">VMware1!</ops:configValue>                - optional
+        "Content-type">application/xml</ops:configValue>    - reqd
+        "Certificate">abcdefgh123456</ops:configValue>        - get n set
+        "ConnectionCount" - 20                                - default
+        """
+        plugin_id = None
+
+        api_url = '/suite-api/api/alertplugins'
+        headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/xml'}
+        data =   """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+                    <ops:notification-plugin version="0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ops="http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/">
+                        <ops:pluginTypeId>RestPlugin</ops:pluginTypeId>
+                        <ops:name>{0:s}</ops:name>
+                        <ops:configValues>
+                            <ops:configValue name="Url">{1:s}</ops:configValue>
+                            <ops:configValue name="Content-type">application/xml</ops:configValue>
+                            <ops:configValue name="Certificate">{2:s}</ops:configValue>
+                            <ops:configValue name="ConnectionCount">20</ops:configValue>
+                        </ops:configValues>
+                    </ops:notification-plugin>""".format(plugin_name, webhook_url, certificate)
+
+        resp = requests.post(self.vrops_site + api_url,
+                             auth=(self.vrops_user, self.vrops_password),
+                             headers=headers,
+                             verify = False,
+                             data=data)
+
+        if resp.status_code is not 201:
+            log.warn("Failed to create REST Plugin: {} for url: {}, \nresponse code: {},\nresponse content: {}"\
+            .format(plugin_name, webhook_url, resp.status_code, resp.content))
+            return None 
+
+        plugin_xmlroot = XmlElementTree.fromstring(resp.content)
+        if plugin_xmlroot is not None:
+            for child in plugin_xmlroot:
+                if child.tag.split("}")[1] == 'pluginId':
+                    plugin_id = plugin_xmlroot.find('{http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/}pluginId').text
+
+        if plugin_id is None:
+            log.warn("Failed to get REST Plugin ID for {}, url: {}".format(plugin_name, webhook_url))
+            return None
+        else:
+            log.info("Created REST Plugin: {} with ID : {} for url: {}".format(plugin_name, plugin_id, webhook_url))
+            status = self.enable_rest_plugin(plugin_id, plugin_name)
+            if status is False:
+                log.warn("Failed to enable created REST Plugin: {} for url: {}".format(plugin_name, webhook_url))
+                return None
+            else:
+                log.info("Enabled REST Plugin: {} for url: {}".format(plugin_name, webhook_url))
+                return plugin_id
+
+
+    def enable_rest_plugin(self, plugin_id, plugin_name):
+        """
+        Enable the REST plugin using plugin_id
+        Params: plugin_id: plugin ID string that is to be enabled
+        Returns: status (Boolean) - True for success, False for failure
+        """
+
+        if plugin_id is None or plugin_name is None:
+            log.debug("enable_rest_plugin() : Plugin ID or plugin_name not provided for {} plugin".format(plugin_name))
+            return False
+
+        try:
+            api_url = "/suite-api/api/alertplugins/{}/enable/True".format(plugin_id)
+
+            resp = requests.put(self.vrops_site + api_url, auth=(self.vrops_user, self.vrops_password), verify = False)
+
+            if resp.status_code is not 204:
+                log.warn("Failed to enable REST plugin {}. \nResponse code {}\nResponse Content: {}"\
+                .format(plugin_name, resp.status_code, resp.content))
+                return False
+
+            log.info("Enabled REST plugin {}.".format(plugin_name))
+            return True
+
+        except Exception as exp:
+            log.warn("Error enabling REST plugin for {} plugin: Exception: {}\n{}".format(plugin_name, exp, traceback.format_exc()))
+
+    def create_alarm_notification(self, alarm_name, alarm_id, resource_id):
+        """
+        Create notification for each alarm
+        Params:
+            alarm_name
+            alarm_id
+            resource_id
+
+        Returns:
+            notification_id: notification_id or None
+        """
+        notification_name = 'notify_' + alarm_name
+        notification_id = None
+
+        #1) Find the REST Plugin id details for - MON_module_REST_Plugin
+        api_url = '/suite-api/api/alertplugins'
+        headers = {'Accept': 'application/xml'}
+        namespace = {'params':"http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/"}
+
+        resp = requests.get(self.vrops_site + api_url,
+                            auth=(self.vrops_user, self.vrops_password),
+                            verify = False, headers = headers)
+
+        if resp.status_code is not 200:
+            log.warn("Failed to REST GET Alarm plugin details \nResponse code: {}\nResponse content: {}"\
+            .format(resp.status_code, resp.content))
+            return None
+
+        # Look for specific plugin & parse pluginId for 'MON_module_REST_Plugin'
+        xmlroot_resp = XmlElementTree.fromstring(resp.content)
+        for notify_plugin in xmlroot_resp.findall('params:notification-plugin',namespace):
+            if notify_plugin.find('params:name',namespace) is not None and notify_plugin.find('params:pluginId',namespace) is not None:
+                if notify_plugin.find('params:name',namespace).text == 'MON_module_REST_Plugin':
+                    plugin_id = notify_plugin.find('params:pluginId',namespace).text
+
+        if plugin_id is None:
+            log.warn("Failed to get REST plugin_id for : {}".format('MON_module_REST_Plugin'))
+            return None
+
+        #2) Create Alarm notification rule
+        api_url = '/suite-api/api/notifications/rules'
+        headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/xml'}
+        data = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+                    <ops:notification-rule xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ops="http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/">
+                        <ops:name>{0:s}</ops:name>
+                        <ops:pluginId>{1:s}</ops:pluginId>
+                        <ops:resourceFilter resourceId="{2:s}">
+                            <ops:matchResourceIdOnly>true</ops:matchResourceIdOnly>
+                        </ops:resourceFilter>
+                        <ops:alertDefinitionIdFilters>
+                            <ops:values>{3:s}</ops:values>
+                        </ops:alertDefinitionIdFilters>
+                    </ops:notification-rule>""".format(notification_name, plugin_id, resource_id, alarm_id)
+
+        resp = requests.post(self.vrops_site + api_url,
+                             auth=(self.vrops_user, self.vrops_password),
+                             headers=headers,
+                             verify = False,
+                             data=data)
+
+        if resp.status_code is not 201:
+            log.warn("Failed to create Alarm notification {} for {} alarm. \nResponse code: {}\nResponse content: {}"\
+            .format(notification_name, alarm_name, resp.status_code, resp.content))
+            return None
+
+        #parse notification id from response
+        xmlroot_resp = XmlElementTree.fromstring(resp.content)
+        if xmlroot_resp is not None and 'id' in xmlroot_resp.attrib:
+            notification_id = xmlroot_resp.attrib.get('id')
+
+        log.info("Created Alarm notification rule {} for {} alarm.".format(notification_name, alarm_name))
+        return notification_id
+
+    def get_vm_moref_id(self, vapp_uuid):
+        """
+        Get the moref_id of given VM
+        """
+        try:
+            if vapp_uuid:
+                vm_details = self.get_vapp_details_rest(vapp_uuid)
+                if vm_details and "vm_vcenter_info" in vm_details:
+                    vm_moref_id = vm_details["vm_vcenter_info"].get("vm_moref_id", None)
+
+            log.info("Found vm_moref_id: {} for vApp UUID: {}".format(vm_moref_id, vapp_uuid))
+            return vm_moref_id
+
+        except Exception as exp:
+            log.warn("Error occurred while getting VM moref ID for VM : {}\n{}".format(exp, traceback.format_exc()))
+
+
+    def get_vapp_details_rest(self, vapp_uuid=None):
+        """
+        Method retrieve vapp detail from vCloud director
+
+        Args:
+            vapp_uuid - is vapp identifier.
+
+            Returns:
+                Returns VM MOref ID or return None
+        """
+
+        parsed_respond = {}
+        vca = None
+
+        vca = self.connect_as_admin()
+
+        if not vca:
+            log.warn("connect() to vCD is failed")
+        if vapp_uuid is None:
+            return None
+
+        url_list = [vca.host, '/api/vApp/vapp-', vapp_uuid]
+        get_vapp_restcall = ''.join(url_list)
+
+        if vca.vcloud_session and vca.vcloud_session.organization:
+            response = requests.get(get_vapp_restcall,
+                                    headers=vca.vcloud_session.get_vcloud_headers(),
+                                    verify=vca.verify)
+
+            if response.status_code != 200:
+                log.warn("REST API call {} failed. Return status code {}".format(get_vapp_restcall, response.content))
+                return parsed_respond
+
+            try:
+                xmlroot_respond = XmlElementTree.fromstring(response.content)
+
+                namespaces = {'vm': 'http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5',
+                              "vmext":"http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/extension/v1.5",
+                              "xmlns":"http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
+                             }
+
+                # parse children section for other attrib
+                children_section = xmlroot_respond.find('vm:Children/', namespaces)
+                if children_section is not None:
+                    vCloud_extension_section = children_section.find('xmlns:VCloudExtension', namespaces)
+                    if vCloud_extension_section is not None:
+                        vm_vcenter_info = {}
+                        vim_info = vCloud_extension_section.find('vmext:VmVimInfo', namespaces)
+                        vmext = vim_info.find('vmext:VmVimObjectRef', namespaces)
+                        if vmext is not None:
+                            vm_vcenter_info["vm_moref_id"] = vmext.find('vmext:MoRef', namespaces).text
+                        parsed_respond["vm_vcenter_info"]= vm_vcenter_info
+
+            except Exception as exp :
+                log.warn("Error occurred calling rest api for getting vApp details: {}\n{}".format(exp, traceback.format_exc()))
+
+        return parsed_respond
+
+
+    def connect_as_admin(self):
+        """ Method connect as pvdc admin user to vCloud director.
+            There are certain action that can be done only by provider vdc admin user.
+            Organization creation / provider network creation etc.
+
+            Returns:
+                The return vca object that letter can be used to connect to vcloud direct as admin for provider vdc
+        """
+
+        log.info("Logging in to a VCD org as admin.")
+
+        vca_admin = VCA(host=self.vcloud_site,
+                        username=self.vcloud_username,
+                        service_type='standalone',
+                        version='5.9',
+                        verify=False,
+                        log=False)
+        result = vca_admin.login(password=self.vcloud_password, org='System')
+        if not result:
+            log.warn("Can't connect to a vCloud director as: {}".format(self.vcloud_username))
+        result = vca_admin.login(token=vca_admin.token, org='System', org_url=vca_admin.vcloud_session.org_url)
+        if result is True:
+            log.info("Successfully logged to a vcloud direct org: {} as user: {}".format('System', self.vcloud_username))
+
+        return vca_admin
+
+
+    def get_vm_resource_id(self, vm_moref_id):
+        """ Find resource ID in vROPs using vm_moref_id
+        """
+        if vm_moref_id is None:
+            return None
+
+        api_url = '/suite-api/api/resources'
+        headers = {'Accept': 'application/xml'}
+        namespace = {'params':"http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/"}
+
+        resp = requests.get(self.vrops_site + api_url,
+                            auth=(self.vrops_user, self.vrops_password),
+                            verify = False, headers = headers)
+
+        if resp.status_code is not 200:
+            log.warn("Failed to get resource details from vROPs for {}\nResponse code:{}\nResponse Content: {}"\
+                    .format(vm_moref_id, resp.status_code, resp.content))
+            return None
+
+        try:
+            xmlroot_respond = XmlElementTree.fromstring(resp.content)
+            for resource in xmlroot_respond.findall('params:resource',namespace):
+                if resource is not None:
+                    resource_key = resource.find('params:resourceKey',namespace)
+                    if resource_key is not None:
+                        if resource_key.find('params:adapterKindKey',namespace).text == 'VMWARE' and \
+                        resource_key.find('params:resourceKindKey',namespace).text == 'VirtualMachine':
+                            for child in resource_key:
+                                if child.tag.split('}')[1]=='resourceIdentifiers':
+                                    resourceIdentifiers = child
+                                    for r_id in resourceIdentifiers:
+                                        if r_id.find('params:value',namespace).text == vm_moref_id:
+                                            log.info("Found Resource ID : {} in vROPs for {}".format(resource.attrib['identifier'], vm_moref_id))
+                                            return resource.attrib['identifier']
+        except Exception as exp:
+            log.warn("Error in parsing {}\n{}".format(exp, traceback.format_exc()))
+
diff --git a/plugins/vRealiseOps/vrops_config.xml b/plugins/vRealiseOps/vrops_config.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa628d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/vRealiseOps/vrops_config.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<alarmsDefaultConfig>
+    <Average_Memory_Usage_Above_Threshold>
+        <period>300</period>
+        <evaluation>2</evaluation>
+        <cancel_period>300</cancel_period>
+        <cancel_cycles>2</cancel_cycles>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+        <repeat>false</repeat>
+        <action>acknowledge</action>
+        <resource_kind>VirtualMachine</resource_kind>
+        <adapter_kind>VMWARE</adapter_kind>
+        <alarm_type>16</alarm_type>
+        <alarm_subType>19</alarm_subType>
+        <impact>risk</impact>
+        <unit>%</unit>
+    </Average_Memory_Usage_Above_Threshold>
+    <Read_Latency_Above_Threshold>
+        <period>300</period>
+        <evaluation>3</evaluation>
+        <cancel_period>300</cancel_period>
+        <cancel_cycles>3</cancel_cycles>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+        <repeat>false</repeat>
+        <action>acknowledge</action>
+        <resource_kind>VirtualMachine</resource_kind>
+        <adapter_kind>VMWARE</adapter_kind>
+        <alarm_type>16</alarm_type>
+        <alarm_subType>19</alarm_subType>
+        <impact>risk</impact>
+        <unit>msec</unit>
+    </Read_Latency_Above_Threshold>
+    <Write_Latency_Above_Threshold>
+        <period>300</period>
+        <evaluation>3</evaluation>
+        <cancel_period>300</cancel_period>
+        <cancel_cycles>3</cancel_cycles>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+        <repeat>false</repeat>
+        <action>acknowledge</action>
+        <resource_kind>VirtualMachine</resource_kind>
+        <adapter_kind>VMWARE</adapter_kind>
+        <alarm_type>16</alarm_type>
+        <alarm_subType>19</alarm_subType>
+        <impact>risk</impact>
+        <unit>msec</unit>
+    </Write_Latency_Above_Threshold>
+    <Net_Packets_Dropped>
+        <period>300</period>
+        <evaluation>1</evaluation>
+        <cancel_period>300</cancel_period>
+        <cancel_cycles>1</cancel_cycles>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+        <repeat>false</repeat>
+        <action>acknowledge</action>
+        <resource_kind>VirtualMachine</resource_kind>
+        <adapter_kind>VMWARE</adapter_kind>
+        <alarm_type>16</alarm_type>
+        <alarm_subType>19</alarm_subType>
+        <impact>risk</impact>
+        <unit>nos</unit>
+    </Net_Packets_Dropped>
+    <CPU_Utilization_Above_Threshold>
+        <period>300</period>
+        <evaluation>1</evaluation>
+        <cancel_period>300</cancel_period>
+        <cancel_cycles>1</cancel_cycles>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+        <repeat>false</repeat>
+        <action>acknowledge</action>
+        <resource_kind>VirtualMachine</resource_kind>
+        <adapter_kind>VMWARE</adapter_kind>
+        <alarm_type>16</alarm_type>
+        <alarm_subType>19</alarm_subType>
+        <impact>risk</impact>
+        <unit>msec</unit>
+    </CPU_Utilization_Above_Threshold>
+    <AVERAGE_MEMORY_UTILIZATION>
+        <metric_key>mem|usage_average</metric_key>
+        <unit>%</unit>
+    </AVERAGE_MEMORY_UTILIZATION>
+    <CPU_UTILIZATION>
+        <metric_key>cpu|usage_average</metric_key>
+        <unit>%</unit>
+    </CPU_UTILIZATION>
+    <READ_LATENCY_0>
+        <metric_key>virtualDisk:scsi0:0|totalReadLatency_average</metric_key>
+        <unit>msec</unit>
+    </READ_LATENCY_0>
+    <WRITE_LATENCY_0>
+        <metric_key>virtualDisk:scsi0:0|totalWriteLatency_average</metric_key>
+        <unit>msec</unit>
+    </WRITE_LATENCY_0>
+    <READ_LATENCY_1>
+        <metric_key>virtualDisk:scsi0:1|totalReadLatency_average</metric_key>
+        <unit>msec</unit>
+    </READ_LATENCY_1>
+    <WRITE_LATENCY_1>
+        <metric_key>virtualDisk:scsi0:1|totalWriteLatency_average</metric_key>
+        <unit>msec</unit>
+    </WRITE_LATENCY_1>
+    <PACKETS_DROPPED_0>
+        <metric_key>net:4000|dropped</metric_key>
+        <unit>nos</unit>
+    </PACKETS_DROPPED_0>
+    <PACKETS_DROPPED_1>
+        <metric_key>net:4001|dropped</metric_key>
+        <unit>nos</unit>
+    </PACKETS_DROPPED_1>
+    <PACKETS_DROPPED_2>
+        <metric_key>net:4002|dropped</metric_key>
+        <unit>nos</unit>
+    </PACKETS_DROPPED_2>
+    <PACKETS_RECEIVED>
+        <metric_key>net:Aggregate of all instances|packetsRxPerSec</metric_key>
+        <unit>nos</unit>
+    </PACKETS_RECEIVED>
+    <PACKETS_SENT>
+        <metric_key>net:Aggregate of all instances|packetsTxPerSec</metric_key>
+        <unit>nos</unit>
+    </PACKETS_SENT>
+</alarmsDefaultConfig>