Performing Baseline Inspection

Automated Baseline Checks

automatically performs a check for all server configurations and common weak passwords at 01:00 every day.

Premium edition, web tamper protection edition, and container edition allow you to customize the automatic detection period for configurations and common weak passwords. For details, see Configuration Check and Weak Password Scan.

Manually Performing a Baseline Check

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page, select a region, and choose Security > HSS. The HSS page is displayed.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Prediction > Baseline Checks.
   

   If your servers are managed by enterprise projects, you can select an enterprise project to view or operate the asset and scan information.

   Figure 1 Baseline check overview
   

4. (Optional) Create a manual baseline check policy.
   Before manually checking the baseline policy, you need to create a manual baseline check policy for the target server. If you have created a policy for the target server, skip this step.

   1. Click Policies in the upper right corner of the page.
      Figure 2 Baseline policies
      
   2. Click Create Policy and configure the policy information by referring to Table 1.
      To check baseline details, click Rule Details on the right of a baseline name.

      

      If you select Linux for OS, you can select any checks included in Baseline and edit rules. This function is not supported for Windows servers.

      Figure 3 Creating a policy
      

      Table 1 Baseline policy parameters

      Parameter	Description	Example Value
      Policy	Policy name	linux_web1_security_policy
      OS	OS that will be checked. Linux Windows	Linux
      Baseline	Baseline used for a check. Check items are as follows: For Linux, The cloud security practice baseline can check Apache2, Docker, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL5, Nginx, Tomcat, SSH, vsftp, CentOS7, EulerOS, EulerOS_ext, Kubernetes-Node, Kubernetes-Master. DJCP MLPS compliance: Apache 2, MongoDB, MySQL 5, Nginx, Tomcat, CentOS 6, CentOS 7, CentOS 8, Debian 9, Debian 10, Debian 11, Red Hat 6, Red Hat 7, Red Hat 8, Ubuntu 12, Ubuntu 14, Ubuntu 16, Ubuntu 18, Alma. For Windows, The cloud security practice baseline can check MongoDB, Apache2, MySQL, Nginx, Redis, Tomcat, Windows_2008, Windows_2012, Windows_2016, Windows_2019, and SqlServer.	Cloud security practices: Select all.

   3. Confirm the information, click Next, and select the server to be associated with the application based on the server name, server ID, EIP, or private IP address.
      Figure 4 Selecting servers
      

   4. Confirm the information and click OK. The baseline policy will be displayed in the policy list.

5. In the upper left corner of the Baseline Inspection page, select the target baseline inspection policy.
   Figure 5 Selecting the target baseline policy
   

6. Click Scan in the upper right corner of the page.
7. If the time displayed in the Last scanned area under the Baseline Check Policy is the actual check time, the check is complete.
   

   • After a manual check is performed, the button will display Scanning and be disabled. If the check time exceeds 30 minutes, the button will be automatically enabled again. If the time displayed in the Last scanned area becomes the current check time, it indicates the check has completed.
   • After the check is complete, you can view the check results and handling suggestions by referring to Viewing and Processing Baseline Check Results.