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Creating failed login rules

Failed login rules can be configured for your host.

To create a new failed login rule:

From the top menu, select Server > Hosts. The Hosts page opens.

1. Select your host from the list by clicking on the hyperlinked host name. The Host Details page opens.

2. Select Failed Login Rules from the left navigation menu. The Failed Login Rules page opens.

3. Click Create. The Create Failed Login Rule page opens.

4. Set the appropriate options.

§     Name. Enter a name for this rule. This name is for your reference only and can include up to 256 characters.

§     Failed login limit. Specify the number of failed login attempts you want to allow before this rule is triggered.

§     Users/Groups. This list contains all of the users and groups configured on your host. Select the checkboxes next to the users and groups to whom you want this rule to apply.

§     Rule Notifications. This section is used to select one or more notifications to send and to specify the criteria that trigger the notifications for this rule. Notifications can be triggered when any of the following actions succeed or fail: failed attempts exceed allowed attempts, expired account, invalid user, password expired.

§     Send notifications when rule is triggered as a result of:

§     Failed attempts exceeding allowed attempts. Select this option to send notifications when a user fails to log in more times than is allowed.

§     Expired account. Select this option to send notifications when a user attempts to log in with an account that has expired.

§     Invalid user. Select this option to send notifications when someone attempts to log in using an incorrect user name.

§     Password expired. Select this option to send notifications when someone attempts to log in using a user account with an expired password.

§     Notification. This list contains all of the notifications configured on the current host. Select the checkboxes beside the notifications you want to associate with this rule. To configure a new notification and associate it with this rule, click Create.

5. Click Save.