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Updated on 2024-07-12 GMT+08:00
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Enabling the HSS Enterprise or Premium Edition

After HSS protection is enabled, HSS continues to protect your servers and provides reliable protection capabilities.

Check Frequency

HSS performs a full scan in the early morning every day.

After you enable server protection, you can view scan results after the automatic scan in the next early morning, or perform a manual scan immediately.

Prerequisite

  • On the Asset Management > Servers & Quota page, click the Servers tab. The agent status of the target server is Online.
  • You have quotas of the enterprise or premium edition that are not bound to servers.

Restrictions

Windows
  • Authorize the Windows firewall when you enable protection for a Windows server. Do not disable the Windows firewall during the in-service period. If the Windows firewall is disabled, cannot block brute-force attack IP addresses.
  • If the Windows firewall is manually enabled, may also fail to block brute-force attack IP addresses.

Enabling protection

To better protect your containers, choose Installation & Configuration and click the Security Configuration tab to set security configurations.

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. In the upper left corner of the page, click and choose Security & Compliance > .
  3. In the navigation pane, choose Asset Management > Servers & Quota. Click the Servers tab.

  4. Select the target server and click Enable in the Operation column. In the Enable Protection dialog box, select a quota edition.
  5. Click OK. After protection is enabled, check the protection status of on the console.

    If protection status of the target server is Enabled, the enterprise or premium edition has been enabled.

    A quota can be bound to a server to protect it, on condition that the agent on the server is online.

    After HSS is enabled, it will scan your servers for security issues. Check items vary according to the edition you enabled.