Enabling Alarm Notifications for DDoS Attacks

After you enable the alarm notification, a notification message will be sent to you through the method you have configured when:

An IP address is under the DDoS attacks.
Additional fees are incurred for traffic exceeding the basic protection bandwidth.

If you want to monitor service metrics in detail, you are advised to use Cloud Eye to set alarm rules and alarm notifications. For details, see Viewing Monitoring Metrics.

Prerequisites

The Simple Message Notification (SMN) service is a paid service. For details about the price, see SMN Product Pricing Details.
Before enabling alarm notifications, you are advised to create a message topic in the SMN service as an administrator. For details, see .

Enabling Alarm Notifications

Log in to the AAD console.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose Advanced Anti-DDoS > Alarm Notifications. The Alarm Notifications page is displayed.
On the Alarm Notifications page, select DDoS attack.

Figure 1 Configure Alarm Notification

Select an existing topic from the drop-down list or click View SMN Topic and create an SMN topic on the displayed page for configuring the terminals for receiving alarm notifications.

Notification topics are available only in CN North-Beijing4 and CN-Hong Kong.
Perform the following steps to create a topic:
1. Create a topic by referring to Creating a Topic.
2. You can add one or more subscriptions to a topic by configuring the phone number, email address, function, platform application endpoint, DMS endpoint, or HTTP/HTTPS endpoint for receiving alarm notifications. For details, see Adding a Subscription.
3. Confirm the subscription. After the subscription is added, confirm the subscription.
For details about topics and subscriptions, see Simple Message Notification User Guide.
Click OK.

To disable the alarm notification function, deselect DDoS attack in Figure 1 and click OK.