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Updated on 2023-02-16 GMT+08:00
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Enabling Alarm Notification for the WTP Edition

After alarm notification is enabled, you can receive alarm notifications sent by HSS to learn about security risks facing your servers and web pages. Without this function, you have to log in to the management console to view alarms.

Prerequisites

Before you configure alarm notification,
  • If you select Use Message Center settings, to set recipients, go to the Message Center and choose Message Receiving Management > SMS & Email Settings. In the Security area, click Modify in the row where Security event resides.
  • If you select Use SMN topic settings, you are advised to create a message topic in the SMN service as an administrator. For details, see Publishing a Message.

You can use Message Center settings or SMN topic settings for alarm notifications.

If you use Message Center settings, alarm notifications will be sent to the recipients specified in the Security events message type.

If you use SMN topic settings, you can create a topic and specify recipients for HSS.

Why Do I Need Alarm Notifications?

After the alarm notification function is enabled, HSS will send alarm information via SMS messages to your mobile devices immediately when alarms (on suspicious accounts, unknown ports, vulnerabilities, brute-force attacks, viruses, malicious programs, abnormal shells, web page tampering, ransomware, and so on) are reported. In this way, you can check alarms anytime anywhere and take measures, for example, enhance security, fix vulnerabilities, and manual scan for and kill viruses.

Enabling WTP Alarm Notifications

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. In the upper left corner of the page, select a region, click , and choose Security & Compliance > Host Security Service.
  3. Configure alarm time on the Alarm Notification tab of WTP.

    Figure 1 Configuring alarm notifications

  4. Select Use Message Center settings or Use SMN topic settings.

    • Message Center settings

      Go to the Message Center and choose Message Receiving Management > SMS & Email Settings. In the Security area, click Modify in the row where Security event resides.

      Figure 2 Adding or modifying recipients
    • SMN topic settings

      Select an available topic from the drop-down list or click View Topics and create a topic.

      To create a topic, that is, to configure a mobile phone number or email address for receiving alarm notifications, perform the following steps:
      1. Follow the instructions described in Creating a Topic to create a topic.
      2. Configure the mobile phone number or email address for receiving alarm notifications, that is, add one or more subscriptions for the created topic. For details, see Adding a Subscription.
      3. Confirm the subscription. After the subscription is added, confirm the subscription as prompted by the received SMS message or email.

        The confirmation message about topic subscription may be regarded as spam. If you do not receive the message, check whether it is intercepted as spam.

      You can create multiple notification topics based on the O&M plan and alarm notification type to receive different types of alarm notifications. For details about topics and subscriptions, see the Simple Message Notification User Guide.

  5. Click Apply. A message will be displayed indicating that the alarm notification is set successfully.