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Enforcing target locations

Enforcing target locations

To enforce target locations in your IBM Cloud account, you must configure IBM Cloud Metrics Routing account settings to limit the locations.

Configuring permitted target regions using the UI

You can configure permitted target regions using the IBM Cloud Metrics Routing UI. For more information, see Configuring account settings.

Prereqs

  1. Install the IBM Cloud CLI.

  2. Install the IBM Cloud Metrics Routing CLI.

  3. Ensure you have the correct IAM permissions to configure IBM Cloud Metrics Routing settings.

  4. Log in to IBM Cloud by running the following command: ibmcloud login

Step 1. Get details of your current account settings

Get details of your current account settings. Run the following command:

ibmcloud metrics-router setting get

The setting Permitted target regions list all the locations where you allowed administrators to configure targets in the account.

Step 2.

To manage the list of permitted regions, run the following command:

ibmcloud metrics-router setting update --permitted-target-regions REGIONS

Where REGIONS define a comma-separated list of regions.

For example, you can run the following command to set 3 regions only:

ibmcloud metrics-router setting update --permitted-target-regions "us-south","us-east","eu-de"