An administrator is tasked with creating an alert definition that will send a notification when...

The correct base object type is NSX: Transport Node . In VCF Operations, an NSX Edge Node is modeled operationally as an NSX Edge Transport Node , not simply as a vCenter virtual machine. The alert definition must therefore be built against the NSX object type that owns the relevant NSX system-resource metrics. The VCF Operations documentation identifies Edge Node health monitoring as including Edge Resource Utilization , which summarizes CPU, memory, and disk storage utilization for the node . The metrics reference also states that VCF Operations for Networks collects metrics for NSX-T Transport Node , and under Node Metrics includes CPU Usage (%) , described as the percentage of CPU used out of total capacity during the interval . This aligns directly with an alert condition such as CPU Utilization > 95%. NSX: Edge Cluster is a higher-level grouping object and would not be the correct base for per-node CPU utilization. vCenter: Virtual Machine would monitor the appliance as a VM, but not the NSX transport-node metric model. vCenter: Entity Status is not appropriate for CPU thresholding. Reference topic: Objective 4.9 – Configure a Custom Alert / NSX Transport Node Metrics / Edge Node Resource Utilization .