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Actions

When creating leasethe account templates, you will be prompted to set a budget and, duration for the lease as well as thresholds.thresholds that can trigger an action when a limit is reached. These thresholdsactions determine the behavior of the lease once a budget or duration threshold is reached.reached, let's look at this in more detail.

In this example you can see the Budget (1) is $100 , the thresholds (2) will trigger at $50, $75 and $100 and the actions (3) that will be taken at each of the thresholds will be Send Alert, Lock Account and Wipe Account

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In the following this section, we’ll explore in more detailsdetail how to set these thresholds and why they are important to your Sandbox Studio environment by looking at different use cases.

Here are the different actions that can be triggered when a threshold is reached.

Action Description

Send Alert

An alert is sent to the user notifying them that the budget or duration threshold has been reached.

FreezeLock account

The account is set to the FrozenLocked state. The  accountIn isthis being used for a lease butstate, the user no longer has access to the account.account (they are locked out), but the account continues to exist and Administrators and Managers can still access the account for evaluation and review purposes.

TerminateWipe account

The clean-up process will start on the account. Note that this action is only available when a maximum budget or duration is set.

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