Configuring Alarm Policies for a Zone

Alarm policies vary with Zones.

Context

The alarm severity of Zones also varies with scenarios. You can set alarm severity parameters of Zones for differentiated alarms.

The alarm severity falls into:
  • Urgent
  • Major
  • Minor
  • Informational
NOTE:
The default severity of alarms reported by the Genie is Major, and the action matches the Major severity.

Procedure

  1. Choose Defense > Policy Settings > Zone.
  2. Click in the Operation column of the Zone list.
  3. Table 1 describes parameters of alarm policies for user-defined Zones.

    Table 1 Parameters of user-defined alarm severity rules
    Parameter Description

    Incoming traffic (Mbit/s)

    Incoming traffic bandwidth of a single IP address per second

    Incoming traffic (pps)

    Incoming packets per second

    Duration(s)

    Attack or anomaly duration

    Action

    SelectNo action or Start Flowspec. Alarm action that varies with the alarm severity

    NOTE:
    An alarm is triggered if one of the previous conditions is met.

  4. Set alarms in batches.

    If you need to configure alarm policies for multiple Zones, select these Zones and click to set alarms in batches.

    Table 2 Parameters of batched user-defined alarm severity rules

    Parameter

    Description

    Urgent

    The value can be customized as required and is 100 by default.

    Major

    The value can be customized as required and is 60 by default.

    Minor

    The value can be customized as required and is 30 by default.

    Informational

    The value can be customized as required and is 1 by default.

    Action

    Select No action or Start Flowspec. Alarm action that varies with the alarm severity.

    NOTE:
    This parameter corresponds to the inbound traffic and alarm action in the alarm severity. (Inbound traffic = Protected bandwidth x Percentage)


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