Help Center/ Cloud Firewall/ User Guide/ System Management/ Security Reports/ Managing Security Reports
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Managing Security Reports

Scenario

Security reports provide periodic updates on your firewall's protection status. You can customize your report settings at any time to adjust the delivery mode, delivery time, or disable reports entirely.

This section describes how to manage security reports, including enabling, disabling, modifying, and deleting security reports.

Notes and Constraints

  • A security report is retained for only three months. You are advised to periodically download security reports for audit.
  • A custom security report cannot be modified. If you need to modify a custom security report, delete it and create a new one.

Enabling/Disabling the Security Report Function

  1. Create a security report.

    For details, see Creating a Security Report.

  2. Log in to the CFW console.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
  4. (Optional) Switch to another firewall instance. If there are multiple firewall instances, you can select a desired instance from the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the page.
  5. In the navigation tree on the left, choose System Management > Security Report.
  6. Toggle on or off the switch in the upper right corner of the target report to change the status.

    • : enabled
    • : disabled

Modifying a Security Report

  1. Create a security report.

    For details, see Creating a Security Report.

  2. Log in to the CFW console.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
  4. (Optional) Switch to another firewall instance. If there are multiple firewall instances, you can select a desired instance from the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the page.
  5. In the navigation tree on the left, choose System Management > Security Report.
  6. Click Edit in the lower right corner of the target report to modify the report information.

    Table 1 Parameters of the security report template

    Parameter

    Description

    Report Name

    Name of a security report It must meet the following requirements:

    • Only uppercase letters (A to Z), lowercase letters (a to z), numbers (0 to 9), hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed.
    • It can contain 1 to 255 characters.

    Report Type
    • Daily

      Statistical period: 00:00:00 to 24:00:00 every day

      A report will be sent to the recipients the day after it is generated.

    • Weekly

      Statistical period: 00:00:00 on Monday to 24:00:00 on Sunday

      A report will be sent to the recipients at the specified time after it is generated.

    Report Schedule

    When Report Type is set to Daily or Weekly, you need to set the report sending time. By default, the log report of the previous statistical period is sent.

    Recipient Group

    If Send Report To is set to SMN topic, you need to set a recipient group.

    Select a topic from the drop-down list to configure the endpoints for receiving the log report.

    To create a topic, click View Topic to go to the SMN console. Perform the following operations:
    1. Create a topic.
    2. Add one or more subscriptions to the topic. You will need to provide a phone number, email address, or HTTP/HTTPS endpoint to receive alarm notifications. For details, see Adding a Subscription.
    3. Confirm the subscription.

    Send Report To
    Security report recipients.
    • SMN topic: Configure report recipients by topic.
    • Do not send: The report is not sent by email.

  7. Click OK. The security report is modified.

Deleting a Security Report

  1. Create a security report.

    For details, see Creating a Security Report.

  2. Log in to the CFW console.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
  4. (Optional) Switch to another firewall instance. If there are multiple firewall instances, you can select a desired instance from the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the page.
  5. In the navigation tree on the left, choose System Management > Security Report.
  6. Click Delete in the lower right corner of the target report and click OK in the displayed dialog box to delete it.

References

Parent Topic: Security Reports